Ariadne’s note: Ariadne Sawyer and Israel Mota welcomed the well known poet from San Fernando Valley, California! Also e-poems by Lini Grol and World Poetry Canada International Director Saleh Mazumder. Music by Susan Cogan and Courtney Pine. To hear the show: CLICK HERE! Due to radio station tech problems, only part of the show can be heard. May be able to download a copy and post it. Sorry about the confusion.

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 non-profit organization which produces readings and publications out of the San Fernando Valley. 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 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, and is the author of fifteen collections of poetry: 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). He has hosted the long running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park since 1994 and is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California.

Rick created and maintains the Poetry Super Highway, an online resource and publication for poets. (PoetrySuperHighway.com)

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Currently Rick works as a music teacher at synagogues in Southern California and as a graphic and web designer for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage.

By the Time You Read This Book
Our Son Probably Still Won’t Be
Potty Trained

We’ve been rewarding our son with toys
when he’s used the potty so when he runs up
to the strangers at the airport, holds up
his Spiderman motorcycle and says
I got this because I pooped!
it was, Indeed, a reward for all.
Later he asks another three year old
if he can drive the motorcycle on her head.
She says yes, out of professional courtesy.

 From Nothing in New England is New

Rick Lupert (C)