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Rick Lupert's 20th book and latest poetic travelogue takes you to the Big Easy, New Orleans, Louisiana and environs where alligators were seen but not eaten, and cocktails were imbibed in the very spots they were invented. Filled with warmth and humor.
Rick Lupert's latest book is the work of a poet at the height of his powers. Back on the road, this time across the American south, Lupert further refines his singular travelogue style with a delicate balance of reportage, recollection, and lyric introspection. Poems such as 'Flight Number One, ' or 'Donut Famine, ' the title piece of the collection, are downright hilarious. But reader, be prepared for 'When the Water Comes' a breathtaking treatment of the Katrina floods and their aftermath. Likewise, 'At Oak Alley Plantation, ' may require a candle and the ear of a strong friend. More than an anthology of latest work, Rick Lupert has given us something rare: a complete experience. All aboard.
Brendan Constantine, author of 'Dementia, My Darling'
As someone who has been living in New Orleans for ten weeks now, I can say with unwavering conviction that master wordsmith Rick Lupert came to New Orleans, wrote these poems here, and avoided arrest throughout his visit.
Jonathan Penton, Editor of 'Unlikely Stories'
Rick Lupert has been involved with Los Angeles. poetry since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award and was a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for 2 years. He created the Poetry Super Highway and hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years. His first spoken word album "Rick Lupert Live and Dead" featuring 25 studio and live tracks was released in March, 2016. He's authored 20 collections of poetry, including "Romancing the Blarney Stone", "Professor Clown on Parade", "Making Love to the 50 Foot Woman" (Rothco Press, May 2015), "The Gettysburg Undress" and "Nothing in New England is New" (Ain't Got No Press), and edited the anthologies "Ekphrastia Gone Wild", "A Poet's Haggadah" and the noir anthology "The Night Goes on All Night. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic "Cat and Banana" and writes the Jewish Poetry column "From the Lupertverse" for The Los Angeles Jewish Journal. He has read his poetry all over the world.
Rick Lupert
Four-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry in Los Angeles since 1990. He was awarded the Beyond Baroque Distinguished Service Award in 2014 for service to the Los Angeles poetry community. He served for two years as a co-director of the nonprofit literary organization Valley Contemporary Poets. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The Los Angeles Times, Rattle, Chiron Review, Red Fez, Zuzu's Petals, Stirring, The Bicycle Review, Caffeine Magazine, Blue Satellite and others. He edited the anthologies A Poet's Siddur: Shabbat Evening - Liturgy Through the Eyes of Poets, Ekphrastia Gone Wild - Poems Inspired by Art, A Poet's Haggadah: Passover Through the Eyes of Poets, and The Night Goes on All Night - Noir Inspired Poetry. He is the author of thirty other books: Begin the Bege, High Moose Alert, It's Spritz O'Clock Somewhere, The Low Country Shvitz, I Am Not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii, The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express, Hunka Hunka Howdee!, 17 Holy Syllables, God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion (Ain't Got No Press), Beautiful Mistakes, Donut Famine, Romancing the Blarney Stone, Professor Clown on Parade, Making Love to the 50 Ft. Woman, The Gettysburg Undress (Rothco Press), Nothing in New England Is New, Death of a Mauve Bat, Sinzibuckwud!, We Put Things in Our Mouths, Paris: It's the Cheese, I Am My Own Orange County, Mowing Fargo, I'm a Jew, Are You?, Feeding Holy Cats, 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) and Up Liberty's Skirt (Cassowary Press), and the spoken word album Rick Lupert Live and Dead (Ain't Got No Press). He hosted the long-running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park for almost twenty-one years, relaunched in 2020 as a virtual series, and has read his poetry all over the world. Rick created Poetry Super Highway, an online resource and publication for poets (PoetrySuperHighway.com), Haikuniverse, a daily online small poem publication (Haikuniverse.com), and writes and occasionally draws the daily web comic Cat and Banana with Brendan Constantine (facebook.com/catandbanana). He also writes a weekly Jewish poetry column for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. Rick serves as Rabbinic Fellow and Cantorial Songleader (with his wife Addie) at Temple Beth Ami in Newhall, California, and works as a graphic and web designer for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage.
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