Lupert: It's The Website - Los Angeles Poet Rick Lupert

Cat and Banana

Check out Cat and Banana, a new daily web-comic about the adventures of a cat and banana. Proud to be working on this new project with L.A. Poet Brendan Constantine!

Poem for Pete Seeger

A poem for Pete Seeger (1919-2014) in loving memory.

New Poem “Vayigash” Chosen by Limmud for Weekly “On One Leg” Project

Thanks so much to Limmud‘s “On One Leg” project for including my new poem “Vayigash” for this week’s Torah Portion in their weekly emailing! Check out a video of me reading the poem below along with the text here: http://limmud.org/publications/limmudononeleg/5774/vayigash/#another

Download my new E-book “Unrequited Potato” for free!

My newest and free-est e-book of poetry “Unrequited Potato is now available to download here. It includes new poems, including a couple from my forthcoming full length collection “The Gettysburg Undress” as well as the title poem in which potatoes are expected, but not achieved. Did I mention it’s FREE? Click here to download it.

Nothing in New England Is New gets 5 Star Review!

Wow! Huge thanks to Cyrus Web, interviewing pioneer of the electronic stratosphere, for the 5 star review he wrote for “Nothing in New England is New” on Amazon.com. Check out the review here!

“Nothing in New England as New” appears on top 50 Book List

Thanks to Cyrus Webb for including my most recent book “Nothing in New England is New” on his list of “Top 50 Non-Fiction Titles of 2013.” Cyrus reads hundreds of books every year and interviews their authors (and other media personalities) on his Conversations LIVE! program on BlogTalkRadio so it’s quite an honor to be included on this list.

Check out the full list HERE. Listen to my interview on Conversations LIVE! HERE, and check out my book “Nothing in New England is New” HERE.

New micro-piece published in Moongarlic E-zine Issue 1 – November 2013

A 2-line poem from my forthcoming collection “The Gettysburg Undress” proudly appears on page 36 of the inaugural issue of MOONGARLIC E-ZINE. Read the whole issue here and thanks MoonGarlic!

KPC Radio Interview – October 2013

Thanks to Matt Gottesman for inviting me to be on his radio show “Speakeasy” hosted at Los Angeles Pierce College’s radio station KPCRadio.com. We spoke about the history of the Cobalt Cafe reading I’ve hosted since 1994 as well as the Poetry Super Highway website and I even got to read a couple of poems.

Check out the full show (about 25 minutes) here.

Here I Am – Selected by Moishe House for weekly Torah Portion Email – October 2013

London-based Moishe-House selected my poem “Here I Am” for there weekly creative parashat ha shavuah email for the Torah portion “Vayera”. Thanks to Moishe house for including poetry in their weekly email! Check out the poem in the video:

If you’re interested, here’s the full text of the poem: Here I Am.PDF

Eating of the Jews Poem-Video Published by Red Fez – October, 2013

My poem-video “The Eating of the Jews” (A Jewish poem sort of about Rosh Hashanah and a lot about eating food) just got published in issue 61 of Red Fez! Check it out here: http://www.redfez.net/video/45