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Sarah Russell has returned to poetry after a career teaching, writing and editing academic prose. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication Theory from the University of Colorado. Her work has been published in Kentucky Review, Red River Review, Misfit Magazine, Right Hand Pointing, Third Wednesday and Psaltery and Lyre, among other print and online journals and anthologies. She has awards from Goodreads, Poetry Nook, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her first poetry collection I lost summer somewhere received honorable mention for the 20!8 Concrete Wolf Louis Award and was published in 2019 by Kelsay Press. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania with her husband Roy Clariana. They spend summers in Colorado to be near children and grandchildren.

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“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
― Robert Graves

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“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

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“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

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“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: bad-day, calvin-and-hobbes, luck

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“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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¡ POETRY ! — 22631 members — last activity Oct 16, 2025 12:10AM
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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message 3: by Sarah

Oct 19, 2018 04:28PM

Kathleen wrote: ""...impatient / with the scraps of life's gingham"!!! So lovely! I enjoy your poems so much because of lines like that. Thank you for sharing, Sarah."

Thanks so much, Kathleen! I don’t post too much on the pirates, because I usually like to publish my new poems, and if they’re on the internet, they’re considered “published” by most editors. Once they’re published, I usually put them up on my blog.

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message 2: by Kathleen

Oct 19, 2018 02:45PM

"...impatient / with the scraps of life's gingham"!!! So lovely! I enjoy your poems so much because of lines like that. Thank you for sharing, Sarah.

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message 1: by C.J.

Jul 22, 2013 09:39PM

C.J. Heck

Hello Sarah,

It's such a pleasure having you for a friend here at Goodreads. Thank you so much and best wishes to you.

My warmest regards and respect,
CJ