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Nicole Cartwright Denison

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Author of The 4th Stage of Grief from blossombones digital chapbook series; e-chapbook, Purview to Undoing from Gold Wake Press; and in print with Recovering the Body , from dancing girl press.
Work has appeared in Weave, Juked, The Ghazal Page, Up the Staircase, Spider Vein Impasto, Diagram, No Tell Motel, Six Little Things, 13 Myna Birds, Press 1, Arsenic Lobster, WOMB, Spooky Boyfriend, blossombones, Blue Fifth Review, ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS, Gently Read Literature, tattoo highway, Poetry Midwest, Alba, eight octaves magazine, The CommonLine Project, elimae, Reimagining Place: Ecotone's blog, The Flask Review, Bent Pin Quarterly, Siren, Stirring, The Pedestal Magazine, Poems Niederngasse, 2River View, canwehaveourballback a ...more

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	Recovering the Body 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ectoplasmic Necropolis by Juliet Cook (Goodreads Author), Candace Turlington, Shane Allison 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SPIDER VEIN IMPASTO by Juliet Cook (Goodreads Author), Dan Ruhrmanty, Letizia Merello 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Purview to Undoing 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 4th Stage of Grief 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	RECOVERING THE BODY: Poems 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
― Anne Sexton

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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.”
― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company

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¡ POETRY ! — 22567 members — last activity Jan 26, 2026 02:43PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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For poets, writers, artists, and readers of "Siren: A Journal of Literature and Art." Find books by Siren's authors and artists. (Photo by Katia Fuen ...more

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This group is for those who believe in the cross-cultural necessity and permanence of poetry. Share and discuss your favourite poets and the writing p ...more

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