Dropped into my mailbox this morning – an update from the Poetry Superhighway that says:

Over 250 Paid entries have been received so far in this year”s Poetry Contest!

Remember – the PSH is structured so that every poet who enters wins a prize. It may not be money, but you can score some cool poetry books or memberships to poetry sites that have been contributed by other members of Poetry Superhighway. If you haven”t entered yet, DO click on the link below and send some poetry.

The rest is a direct quote from the newsletter – enjoy the info.

Enter the contest! Click on “2006 Poetry Contest” from the main PSH menu for all the details or e-mail Guidelines@PoetrySuperHighway.com to have them automatically e-mailed to you.

Thanks to all of our sponsors for helping to insure that everyone will get a prize just for entering, in addition to the cash prize to the top three scoring poets!

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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
ISSN: 1523-6587
August 28 – September 3, 2006

this week:

This week featuring poets from Pittsburgh, PA and Tuscon, AZ

2 new poetry and writing related links added this week.

The Literary Press and Magazine Directory 2006/2007: The Only Directory for the Serious Writer of Fiction and Poetry (Clmp Directory of Literary Magazines and Presses) by Council of Literary Press and Magazines featured this week in the Poetry Resource Books section of the PSH Bookstore.

Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.

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POETS OF THE WEEK
This week”s featured poets are: Sankar Roy and Barbara Hasanat:

Sankar Roy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a winner of PEN USA Emerging Voices, associate editor of international poetry anthology, Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Rupa & Co, Bayeux Arts) which was one of the three finalists for 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award and winner of Skipping Stone Honor Award. His poems have appeared or forthcoming in Bitter Oleander, Blue Color Review, Color Wheel, Diner, Pittsburgh City Paper, Runes and Whiskey Island. Sankar”s recent project is creating an international website ( www.writersalliance.net ) to create a worldwide artistic and literary response against the genocide in Darfur.

Barbara Hasanat (Tuscon, Arizona) doen”t have a biography, just a life. She has read great literature all of her life-almost all of Dostoevsky before she was 12. Her favorite poets are Haiku poets Issa, Buson and Basho. She also likes many Chinese poets and Walt Whitman, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson. She began writing poetry 4 months ago about one year after becoming a Buddhist and beginning her practice of daily meditation. Barbara was born and lived in the great city of Chicago most of her life but now lives in Tucson, Arizona

Click on “FEATURED POETS” from the main PSH menu to read their work.