Rick Lupert ( http://poetrysuperhighway. com/ ) has been involved with Los Angeles poetry since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award, was a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for 2 years and hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading in Canoga Park for almost 21 years. He’s authored 17 collections of poetry including “Making Love to the 50 Ft. Woman” and “I’m a Jew, Are You?”, and the new spoken word album “Rick Lupert Live and Dead”. He edited the anthologies “A Poet’s Haggadah – Passover through the Eyes of Poets” and “Ekphrastia Gone Wild“. He has performed his work all over the world including at Limmud in England, the URJ Biennial in San Diego, Friday Night Live in Los Angeles, and at the annual Hava Nashira Jewish music educators workshop in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He works as a graphic and web designer and in Los Angeles synagogues as a songleader. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic “Cat and Banana.” He is regularly featured at venues throughout Southern California.
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