Check out the special spoken word mp3 edition of Poetry Super Highway Live where we played a number of spoken word tracks from poets all over the world, including a new one from Maroula Blades from Berlin, Germany. We also had live callers reading poems from Downtown, Los Angeles, Richmond, Indiana and Birmingham Alabama. Check out the full show in our archive and visit the Poetry Super Highway online to read poetry, submit poetry for publication and many other unique poetry projects throughout the year.

We began this month's show with a special tribute to recently departed L.A. poet Wanda Coleman (as well as playing a recording of one of her poems at the half hour mark.) Also, big thanks to our callers from New Brunswick, Candada, Lyndbrook, New York, Birmingham, Alabama, and Racho Santa Margarita and Los Angeles, California. Listen to the complete show in the archive!

We announced the winners of the 2013 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest here in this special PSH Live broadcast! Several of the poets who scored in the top 10 positions were on hand to read their poems (including second place winner Aaron Gardner!) And we were lucky enough to hear from 2 of our contest judges as well about their experiences judging this year's contest. Check out the contest details here.

California was in force during this month's show as we welcomed poets reading poems from, Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Luis Obispo and the South Bay all in California, along with a few poets from Flagstaff, Arizona, Newark, New Jersey and Birmingham Alabama.

Listen to the online publication reading for Ekphrastia Gone Wild emceed by Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert and including readings by poets from all over the world reading their poems from the recently releases collection Ekphrastia Gone Wild - Poems Inspired by Art (Ain't Got No press, August 2013) featuring work from Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska as well as Brendan Constantine, Suzanne Lummis, Laurel Ann Bogen, Gerald Locklin and many more.

Check out Ekphrastia Gone Wild here: http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/egw

Great set of poets reading poetry on this month's show including callers from Los Angeles, California, Columbus, Ohio, Ottawa, Canada, Sonoma, California, Chatsworth, California and Birmingham, Alabama. Check out the solid poems and readers in the archive.

What a great conversation with the three PSH Poetry Contest Judges, Maggie Westland, Lisette Alonso and William Doreski.  This is essential listening if you're considering entering the contest as all three judges gave great insights into what they're looking for when they are reading the contest entries (AKA your poems)! Enjoy!

This month we saw the beginnings of a Canadian invasion with poets calling in and reading from Ottowa and Ontario, Canada as well as Colombus, OH, Lake Forest, California, Los Angeles, California, Birmingham, Alabama and Westerville, Ohio. Plus learn about the newly invited poem form, the lang-ku.

Thanks to our callers from Topnga Canyon, CA Westerville, OH, North East, TN, Huntington Beach, CA Ames Lake, WA, Birmingham, AL and Northidge, CA for sharing poetery this month! (Also there was a mention of Alpacas.) Check it out in the archive.

Another packed show with callers from Egg Harbor, New Jersey, Sonoma, California, Miami, Florida, Limestone, Tennesee, The San Fernando Valley, CA, Shortsville, NY, Nova Scotia, Canada, West Seattle, Washington, Rochester, NY and Philadelphia, PA. Lots of great work but especially look for Stephanie Jones piece written for her hopeful love she met in a Subway Restaurant. Are you out there? She needs you.