Biographie de l'auteur :
Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He served for two years as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets, a twenty-five year old non-profit organization which produces a readings and publications out of the San Fernando Valley. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The Los Angeles Times, Chiron Review, Stirring, PoeticDiversity.org, Zuzu's Petals, Caffeine Magazine, Blue Satellite and others. He recently edited A Poet’s Haggadah: Passover through the Eyes of Poets anthology and is the author of 11 books: Paris: It’s The Cheese, I Am My Own Orange County, Mowing Fargo, I'm a Jew. Are You?, Stolen Mummies, I’d Like to Bake Your Goods, A Man With No Teeth Serves Us Breakfast, (Ain’t Got No Press), Lizard King of the Laundromat, Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town (Inevitable Press), Feeding Holy Cats and Up Liberty’s Skirt (Cassowary Press). He serves on the Artist and Community Advisory Council of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California. (Though he’s not sure how that happened or what it means.) He has hosted the long running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park since 1994 and is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California. The author’s first e-book is To Hell With Rick Lupert (Ain’t Got No Press, May, 2006) His second e-book is The Rick Lupert Fun Club (Ain’t Got No Press, May, 2007) Rick created and maintains the Poetry Super Highway, a major internet resource for poets. (http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/) Currently Rick works as the music teacher and graphic and web designer for Temple Ahavat Shalom in Northridge, CA and for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage.
Présentation de l'éditeur :
100 pages of new poems written in love in some of the most amazing places on earth. A full length collection of travel-poetry from Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert written in the author's witty, surreal, and accessible style. Sample poems on the author's website at http://poetrysuperhighway.com/byg.html
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