God Wrestler: A poem for every Torah Portion - Paperback

Lupert, Rick: - Two-time Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net nominee Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He was awarded the Beyond Baroque Distinguished Service Award in 2014 for service to the Los Angeles poetry community. He served for two years as a co-director of the non-profit literary organization Valley Contemporary Poets. 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 hosted the long running Cobalt Café reading series in Canoga Park for almost twenty-one years and has read his poetry all over the world including at the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial, Limmud Conferences in London, Baltimore and Los Angeles, Craig Taubman's Pico Union Project in Los Angeles, and at numerous synagogues throughout the United States. Rick created and maintains Poetry Super Highway, an online resource and publication for poets (PoetrySuperHighway.com), Haikuniverse, a daily online small poem publication (Haikuniverse.com), and writes and occasionally draws the daily web comic Cat and Banana with Brendan Constantine. (facebook.com/catandbanana) He also writes the weekly Jewish poetry blog From the Lupertverse for JewishJournal.com 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.