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Laura Sterling

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Born

in Canada

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http://www.laurasterlingwrites.com

Genre

Children's, Poetry

Influences

Dr Seuss, Shakespeare,

Member Since

October 2015

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Laura Sterling is a community activist and currently works with an organization serving immigrant and diverse communities. A bridge builder, she seeks to reduce systemic barriers through education and advocacy.

She describes herself as a poetic sort with a vivid imagination and a wandering spirit. It is her firm belief that everyone can make a positive difference in the world by sharing their time and talents and being kind to others.

Laura has published two children's book and a collection of poetry. ...more

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Refugees of Confederation – a powerful read.

I was fortunate to get my hands on an ARC of Refugees of Confederation by T. F. Pruden, scheduled for release on Feb 11/22. I am an avid reader, but there are perhaps only a dozen books on my laden shelves that I reread – this makes the list. Refugees of Confederation is Pruden’s sixth novel and should put him front and centre as one of Canada’s finest storytellers.

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Laura rated a book it was amazing A Whippoorwill Called by T.F. Pruden (Goodreads Author)	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
I received an ARC (advance reader copy) of T. F. Pruden’s latest novel “A Whippoorwill Called.” Pruden is a consummate storyteller. His characters are richly drawn with their flaws and strengths on full display. The story is set in the prairie hinterl ...more
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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up — 1590 members — last activity Apr 12, 2026 09:46AM
This is a group for those who want to take on the less-daunting task of reading all of the books from Julia Eccleshare's 1001 Children's Books You Mus ...more

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Officially 15k Members Strong & Climbing!! Building and supporting a community of self-published authors dedicated to both sharing experiences and le ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22533 members — last activity Apr 13, 2026 03:25PM
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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