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the fourth annual:
Great Poetry E-Book Free-For-All

The mission of the Poetry Super Highway is to expose as many people to as many other people's poetry as possible.

Thanks to the writers who donated 64 e-books which were freely
available to download for 24 hours on May 1st, 2008

The complete list of books, along with how many times
each was downloaded during the 24 hour period is listed below.

until the next Great Poetry E-Book Free-For-All

What?

A project in which 64 poetry e-books were donated and made available to all interested humans on Earth for a 24 hour period.

Throughout April, 2008 we collected e-books from poets and writers interested in participating.

Then on May 1st, for a 24 hour period, a special website went live with links to all of the e-books. For 24 hours anyone was free to download, for free, as many of these e-books as they liked...a poetry e-book free-for-all.

Missed including your e-book this year? Then join the Poetry Super Highway e-mail list so you'll get first word on all of our projects.

E-Books and How Many Times Each Was downloaded:

1024x768 (Poems for Pixels) by Paul Koenig...(Downloaded 58 Times.)
Experimental e-book without recto and verso. Best viewed not on paper, full screen, 1024 x 768 resolution.
http://www.myspace.com/variablearts

56; a life in pieces by Jim Bennett...(Downloaded 63 Times.)
56 years, with one poem representing each year, more like a photo album or a scrapbook, with snapshots rather than an autobiography. For each year I read the corresponding Biblical Psalm and found some direction from that along with notable personal or news events.
http://www.poetrykit.org

AFROETRY: Afrocentric Poetry that Educates & Motivates by Linda Mayfield-Hayes...(Downloaded 47 Times.)
"AFROETRY: Afrocentric Poetry that Educates & Motivates" is an Afrocentric experience in poetry.
http://slendah.tripod.com

the age of shame by John Sweet...(Downloaded 43 Times.)
glorious despair from the first days of the new century.
http://blog.myspace.com/bleedinghorsedenied

amnesia diary by Peter Schwartz...(Downloaded 51 Times.)
9 paintings paired with 9 poems, all permeated with a feeling of emptiness, hence: amnesia diary.
http://www.sitrahahra.com

The Cat and the Carroll A Deering and Other North Carolina Poems by LB Sedlacek...(Downloaded 46 Times.)
An ebook of poems inspired by the setting of North Carolina, its history and folk tales.
http://www.lbsedlacek.com

Cheap Motel Talk and Other Lies by Barry Graham...(Downloaded 47 Times.)
Cheap Motel Talk and Other Lies is an erratic, precise, playful, honest, original, disgraceful, hopelessly optimistic, dirty, beautiful, grimy, over the top writing collection of prose poetry written by Barry Graham.
http://www.dogzplot.com

Colorful, Seasonal & Emotional Poetry by Wendy Bouchoux...(Downloaded 38 Times.)
This is a collection of poetry written about different colors, the holidays and seasons of the year, and different emotions.

Colors of Cabin Fever by Sue Turner...(Downloaded 41 Times.)
A selection of poetry and artwork created in a long winter while the author dreams of spring.
http://firsttumblewords.blogspot.com

Coz We're The Real Deal, Friend (Poems For Jobie Hughes) by Sid Yiddish...(Downloaded 48 Times.)
If love for mankind and your fellow man was required by law, this would be its doctrine.
http://www.myspace.com/sid_yiddish

The Computer Sings Until Midnight by Sam Silva...(Downloaded 40 Times.)
another low key winter chapbook
http://www.lulu.com/samsilva54

Dangerous Women & Fancy Ladies by Jessica Lopez...(Downloaded 46 Times.)
portraits and paradigms representing the feminine, the confessional and the fearless....

dot dot, dot dash, dash dash by Jonathan Shaw...(Downloaded 31 Times.)
A tiny pamphlet of poems mainly abut childhood in North Queensland, Australia
http://homepage.mac.com/shawjonathan/iblog/

Drowning Ophelia by Alex Stolis...(Downloaded 49 Times.)
A collection of poems by Alex Stolis

the dying west, forever by John Sweet...(Downloaded 31 Times.)
selected poems, 2007. freaktastic.
http://blog.myspace.com/bleedinghorsedenied

Enamouring Fire by Jerry Whalley...(Downloaded 27 Times.)
I rode my bike up the mountain to the sky / and flew back down and wondered why / the mountain dreams in streams rushing to the sea
where the waves are gathering but all disagree / about the many splendoured suns glittering around / and whether they are jewels the mountain found

Eutopian Dreams by A. M. Caratheodory...(Downloaded 32 Times.)
New and used poetry, collected from the National Poetry Series Finalist "Fragments" and from other books, "Wild Apples" and "Amphibian Dreams."

The Forever Bohemia by Gene Fowler...(Downloaded 30 Times.)
I take the coffee house in the poet’s mind that the poet’s mind inhabits as the “forever Bohemia”. What matters was, and is, that the intensity, the light push of an adrenaline rush, the alchemical goings on of the “forever Bohemia” permeates the poems.
http://home.earthlink.net/~acorioso/fires.htm

Go by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino...(Downloaded 47 Times.)
"The closest live experience to these poems would be walking through an international airport, catching snatches of conversation in a number of different languages, 'understanding' some of them, simply marveling in the phenomenal beauty of the rest. These poems capture language as it is lived."
http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/editor.html

Goddess and Other Poems by Christian Ward...(Downloaded 35 Times.)
My second chapbook. Please enjoy and tell your friends about it if you do.
http://www.myspace.com/wordfuck

Goldfish Sings Cherry Blossom Songs by Barbara Phillips...(Downloaded 36 Times.)
Goldfish Sings Cherry Blossom Songs is a collection of poems which celebrate, reflect upon, complain about, and sing about all those life happenings which exhilirate, sadden, and sometimes even inspire.

Hallucinating California by Richard Lopez and Jonathan Hayes...(Downloaded 43 Times.)
This chap is split by two California poets. One living in Sacramento and the other in San Francisco. These poems are from those cities. And those cities hold these poems.
http://reallybadmovies.blogspot.com

Hollywood Poetry: The Definitive Edition by Terry McCarty...(Downloaded 40 Times.)
This book will appear later this year in conventional print form; here's your chance to obtain a free e-copy. Revised and updated poems about Hollywood (the city and the state of mind) and the people who inhabit it. Enjoy!
http://journals.aol.com/terrymcca/poetry-arts-confidential/

Husbands and Other Strangers - Book II by Judith Lawrence...(Downloaded 41 Times.)
This is a poetry book on the foibles and mysteries of love won and lost from a woman's point of view. It is a follow-up book to Husbands and Other Strangers - Book I, as every woman deserves a Second Act.
http://www.riverpoetsjournal.com

I'd Rather be Mexican by Charles P. Ries...(Downloaded 33 Times.)
Does all joy reside beneath brown skin? Join Charles P. Ries as he
discovers his inner Mexican.
http://www.literati.net/Ries

I Saw it on TV by Terry McCarty...(Downloaded 29 Times.)
Old and new poems about celebrity, media and politics.
http://journals.aol.com/terrymcca/poetry-arts-confidential

In the Bennett Tree by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino...(Downloaded 31 Times.)
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino joins John M. Bennett “In the Bennett Tree.” Collaborative poems, images, an introduction and a full-length critical essay pay homage to American poet John M. Bennett.
http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/eratioeditions.html

The Last Time by Charles P. Ries...(Downloaded 27 Times.)
Modern love; who needs it? Love has been the object of poetic reflections for centuries, Charles P. Ries takes it on one more time.
http://www.literati.net/Ries

Life In The Year Of Divorce by Dan Kasten...(Downloaded 34 Times.)
Poems from the year of my divorce.

Little Pouts by Misti Rainwater-Lites...(Downloaded 36 Times.)
thirty-eight pages of truth dripping poetry
http://ebulliencepress.blogspot.com

Loose Thoughts by Mike McCulley...(Downloaded 26 Times.)
100 later poems and pages of Haiku, including 'Flaw in the Quilt', 'Joan's Tawny Back', 'Burgundy-Velvet Drapes', and 'Mosquito Loves You'.
http://wordanger.blogspot.com

Los Angeles St. by Christopher Mulrooney...(Downloaded 30 Times.)
Poems of the city.

Meditative Emotions by Donna Pecore...(Downloaded 29 Times.)
A collection inspired by Ch Gung exercises

A Mustard Seed by Victor Vosen...(Downloaded 26 Times.)
A Mustard Seed by Victor Vosen Selected poems of 2007: most never before published! This highly experimental collection, the author builds with sound and transformations producing common phrases such as "brings flavor fecund and profound, flowering favors" and "ringing ratatat reville for the morning" in a triumph of human thought.

Nose in the Wind by Mike McCulley...(Downloaded 23 Times.)
100 more poems and pages of Haiku, including 'Baloney Bull', 'Murder Chasing Death', 'Frigid', and 'Get Ready'.
http://wordanger.blogspot.com

Nothing Held Back by Terry McCarty...(Downloaded 28 Times.)
Consists of personal poems written between 2003-2007.
http://journals.aol.com/terrymcca/poetry-arts-confidential/

Odd by Charles P. Ries...(Downloaded 31 Times.)
Well life is Odd, isn't it?
http://www.literati.net/Ries

The Old Earth by CP Aboobacker...(Downloaded 28 Times.)
Borges' words will characterize my poems. Time is a river that carries me along, but I am the river. And the words of Rumy would consummate my poem:I want a chest that has been ripped wide apart by separation so that of the deepest of longings
http://www.thanalonline.com/

Open Up by Donna Pecore...(Downloaded 27 Times.)
Here is a chap book from 2006 filled with a variety of work a bit different then my Meditative Emotions--Enjoy--d

Organic Hotels by Matthew Abuelo...(Downloaded 32 Times.)
Organic Hotels is my second book of poetry. It focuses on the war in Iraq, life in New York and the social discontent.

petits poèmes by Julia Bemiss...(Downloaded 38 Times.)
a small echapbook of tasty morsels, perfect for wi-fi reading in your favorite neighborhood cafe. cappuccinos optional. includes original photgraphs taken by the author.
http://www.poeticdiversity.org

Poems by J. R. Simons...(Downloaded 29 Times.)
A collection of poem drafts for my eventual MFA thesis in poetry.
http://www.jovialities.8m.com/

A Poet for Christ, Volume I by Michael Wareham...(Downloaded 24 Times.)
"A Poet for Christ, Volume I [2nd ed.]" is a collection of 51 poems that speak to the core of ones own being.
http://www.cafepress.com/ServiamCM

Prisoner's Dilemma by Cheryl Snell...(Downloaded 33 Times.)
At the heart of these twenty-two poems is the question, Who or what will betray us? Book-ended by art from Janet Snell, Cheryl Snell's writing seeks revelation in the ordinary, beauty in the image that flirts with disgust.
http://shivasarms.blogspot.com

The Projectionists' Daughter by Christian Ward...(Downloaded 27 Times.)
My fourth chapbook. Please tell your friends to read it if you have enjoyed it.
http://www.myspace.com/wordfuck

Quirks and Seconds by Susan Meehan...(Downloaded 66 Times.)
This is a small omnium-gatherum of hitherto unprintable poems. They are sometimes funny, occasionally death-obsessed and often Irish culture-oriented.

The Rick Lupert Free Poetry Sampler...(Downloaded 42 Times.)
An electronic sampling of old and new poems with judicious use of the colors yellow and cyan.
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/

The Sea by Christian Ward...(Downloaded 27 Times.)
My third chapbook, The Sea. Please enjoy reading and tell your friends about it if you do.
http://www.myspace.com/wordfuck

Sex Poems by Gary Glazner...(Downloaded 38 Times.)
Erotic poems in various forms including free verse, Triolet and prose poems and subject matter from tea, to rope, to dentists, to the world's youngest female sword swallower. Text set in most sexy of fonts- Helvetica, which happens to be the same age as the author.

A Short Ride Into Abstract by Zachary Kluckman...(Downloaded 35 Times.)
Made up of word-paintings and several performance pieces, these poems attempt to scratch the negative and find color hiding within.....
Downloaded 77 times.

Some Whole Number by David Breeden...(Downloaded 27 Times.)
A collection of poetry.
http://www.drpoetry.com

Star Garden by Linda Sarah...(Downloaded 30 Times.)
A very short picture-poem about a garden, a ladder and some stars...
http://lindasarah.com

A Starter for Ten by Tina Cole...(Downloaded 38 Times.)
This is the first E-Book I have ever done - here are ten nature related poems written over a period of about three years. Many have been 'inspired' on my route to work or by a glimpsed moment in time.

Sunset Debris by Ron Silliman...(Downloaded 34 Times.)
A prose poem written in the 1970s as part of the lifelong sequence I have been working on since that time. Sunset Debris questions whatever it can.
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/

these pale grey light years, this deepening silence by John Sweet...(Downloaded 36 Times.)
Selected poems, 2007. Groovalicious.
http://blog.myspace.com/bleedinghorsedenied

To the Fly on My Sleeve by Mike McCulley...(Downloaded 24 Times.)
100 even more poems and pages of Haiku, including 'Dancing Naked in the Desert', 'Hitching a Ride', 'Licking My Fingers', and 'The Woman with a Broken Down SUV at the Paria River'.
http://wordanger.blogspot.com

Tuesday is Wednesday, Vol. 1 by LB Sedlacek...(Downloaded 28 Times.)
A selection of poems composed recently and years ago from the poetry chapbook blog of LB Sedlacek, Tuesday is Wednesday. Poems range from eco to haiku to Route 66 to Tom Dooley to well just about anything.
http://tuesdaywednesday.blogspot.com

The Use Your Delusion Sampler by Terry McCarty...(Downloaded 30 Times.)
Old and new poems about poets, poetry and poetry-related issues.
http://journals.aol.com/terrymcca/poetry-arts-confidential/

Used Poems: 1985-2004 by Larry O. Dean...(Downloaded 39 Times.)
Compendium of poems culled from over a half-dozen chapbooks, many of them no longer in print; also previously uncollected work.
http://larryodean.com

Walking with Gandhi by Gary Blankenship...(Downloaded 42 Times.)
A set of poems based upon Gandhi's quote on the seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/tw10/tw4conte.htm

Watermark Me Free (Part 1) by Pearl Pirie...(Downloaded 27 Times.)
a woman's life, travelling the roles, religion, immigration and motherhood
http://pearlformance.livejournal.com

Watermark Me Free (Part 2) by Pearl Pirie...(Downloaded 32 Times.)
a 16 page chapbook of free verse on the subjects of a woman’s life, work, romance, body and relationships
http://pearlformance.livejournal.com

White Heat by Todd Moore...(Downloaded 45 Times.)
Ten poems so raw it feels like the skin has burned off.
http://www.saintvituspress.com

Word Anger by Mike McCulley...(Downloaded 32 Times.)
100 early poems including 'Women Ain't Normal', 'Bird in a Bottle', 'Graveyard Dust', and 'Frog, on the Moon'.
http://wordanger.blogspot.com

A Man With No Teeth Serves Us Breakfast | I'd Like to Bake Your Goods | Stolen Mummies | Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town
Up Liberty's Skirt | Feeding Holy Cats | Mowing Fargo
| I'm a Jew, Are You? | Lizard King of the Laundromat | I Am My Own Orange County
Paris: It's The Cheese
| Poetry Super Highway | Judaic Links | Rick's Bookmarks | Cobalt Poets
E-mail Rick
| Other Cool Rick Stuff / Upcoming Readings | Who The Hell Is Rick