The initial raison detre of Poetry Super Highway was to promote the poetry and other activities of literary entrepreneur Rick Lupert. But since its launch a donkey's age ago, this site has evolved into both a zine of sorts (there are submission guidelines) and a fairly rich resource for all things poetry-related.

On the zine side of things, each week PSH showcases the work of two featured poets. During a recent visit these were Dee Rimbaud, a Scottish poet and artist whose work melds themes and images from mythology with more contemporary subject matter, and New Yorker Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, who contributed the delightful "The Jazz Musicians", from which the following is an excerpt:

Who let the men
become ancient?
Their hands cracked
...sad as aimed guns
question mark spines
testify the constant lack
of answers and it hurts
to see them walk
moaning feet

In addition to the featured poets section (which includes both new and familiar names), visitors to PSH will also find extensive links to online publications and other poetry-related sites (if you check out these pages be prepared to scroll), a forum where poets can post and discuss their work, and, of course, an Amazon affiliate program bookstore where selections include Hal Sirowitz's Mother Said and the 2002 Poets Market.

Lupert still pimps his own books as well, including I'm a Jew, Are You? and several collections of poetry, which you can buy along with newly minted PSH tee-shirts. Shameless capitalism, indeed — but we should probably cut Lupert some slack for trying to make the odd buck off of this honestly valuable labor of love.