Rick Lupert

Poetry • Spoken Word • Jewish

Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher

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At Night With Pizza Nominated for Pushcart Prize

Thrilled, honored, and delighted (yes, all three) to be nominated by Dashboard Horus for a Pushcart prize for my poem “At Night With Pizza” from my most recent book “It’s Spritz O’Clock Somewhere.” Thanks, editor Marie C Lecrivain for including me in this roster along with Victor Infante, Annette Sugdon, Scott Kaestner, Jeanie Greenfelder, and Keiko Amano! Check out the poem at Dashboard Horus here.

Download My Free E-Book “Moin Moin Reeperbahn!” Today only!

Hello friends! I’ve got a brand new and FREE Poetry e-book available until midnight tonight (Sunday, December 1, pacific time) “Moin Moin Reeperbahn!” is all poems written within the last year, including everything I wrote on a recent trip to Hamburg and Paris with my son Jude, selections from my forthcoming travel poetry collection “High Moose Alert” written last summer in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, and a few other new pieces.

Download “Moin Moin Reeperbahn!HERE, along with 72 other free poetry e-books as part of the 20th annual Poetry Super Highway E-Book Free-For-All.

3 New Poems Published at Kingfisher Poetry Forum 2

Thanks to Don Kingfisher Campbell for publishing three of my poems (brand new ones) at Kingfisher Poetry Forum 2 today. Two of them are from a forthcoming book called “High Moose Alert” and were written on my trip to Alaska and Canada this past summer. Check them out at the link in the first comment. (Plus a fine picture of a bear!) Check them out here.

“It’s Spritz O’Clock Somewhere” Publication Event

A publication event for my new book “It’s Spritz O’Clock Somewhere” with poems from the book, live Italian delicacies with Addie Lupert, and “Something Italian” with Elizabeth Iannaci! Check out the book HERE.

It’s Spritz O’Clock Somewhere Publication Reading

Join me this Saturday at 2pm (pacific) / 5pm (eastern) for a fun publication reading for my new book “It’s Spritz O’Clock Somewhere” – poems I wrote last summer when Addie and I visited Italy! Featuring:

Poems from the book with Rick Lupert (That’s Me!)
Live Italian Food! with Addie Lupert
“Something Italian” with Elizabeth Iannaci

See poems from the book and get yours here.

The event will be live on Facebook here (or anytime afterward on Facebook and Youtube)

Reading at Hollie Hardie’s “Lions Like Us” Publication Event

I got to read with a fantastic roster of poes at Beyond Baroque to help celebrate Hollie Hardy’s new book “Lions Like Us.” Check out my set in this video! And check out Hollie’s book here.

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