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Rick Lupert

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Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry in Los Angeles since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2017 Ted Slade Award and the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award, a three-time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a Best of the Net nominee. He served as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for two years and created Poetry Super Highway. Rick hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years, now manifesting as a weekly Zoom series since early 2020. His spoken word album "Rick Lupert Live and Dead" featured 25 studio and live tracks. He's authored 27 collections of poetry, including The Low Country Shvitz, I Am Not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii, The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express, and God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion (Ain't Got No Press), and edited the anthologies A Poet's Siddur, Ekphrastia Gone Wild, A Poet's Haggadah, and the noir anthology The Night Goes on All Night. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic "Cat and Banana" and writes a Jewish poetry column for JewishJournal.com. He has been lucky enough to read his poetry all over the world. His Jewish poetry can be found at JewishPoetry.net.