Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2014 Beyond Baroque Distinguished Service Award for service to the Los Angeles poetry community. He is the author of 21 books: Paris: It’s The Cheese, Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town, and most recently God Wrestler and I Am Not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii. He hosted the Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park for almost 21 years and is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California. Rick created and maintains the Poetry Super Highway, an online resource and publication for poets, and works as the music teacher and graphic and web designer for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage. He lives in Newhall, California with his wife Addie, son Jude, and three cats.

Find much more here:

https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/rick/

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This Week's Prompt:

Write a poem inspired by your favorite poet.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a list poem of choices, each line/choice ending with the line “and I will die on this hill.” It could be funny like “A bar of soap is better than any kind of body wash, and I will die on this hill.” Or heavier things. Another option is to write a longer poem detailing a choice which ends with the line.

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