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Matthew Abuelo

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in New York, The United States

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http://deadrabbitnews.blogspot.com/

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Politics

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Jim Carroll, Nelson Algren, Patti Smith and many others

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Matthew Abuelo is a writer, professional blogger and award winning poet. He has two books out, Last American Roar and Organic Hotels, both can be found at lulu.com. He is also a former journalist for the online news site Examiner. He currently writes for the Times Square Chronicles. His third book "The News Factory" has just been released by Plain view Press.

Matthew Abuelo has read at the Poetry Project's marathon which also featured literary and rock icons John Giorno, Pattie Smith, Thurson Moore, Ann Waldman, Lenny K, Susan Vega and may more. He is well known writer around Manhattan and is currently self promoting his latest collection of works. ...more

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	The News Factory: Notes from a Dying City it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	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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Forever Turn The Midnight Carousel is just about ready to send out in final draft form. There are only a few minor changes and then everything should start moving forward. Now the real painful part starts, asking everyone to check out my fund raising page. Since I'm going with a nonprofit instead of a traditional book publisher, I have to pay for the cost of the publishing of my book. I hate askin Read more of this blog post »

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The Last Carousel: Fiction and Reportage

by Nelson Algren

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“I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

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― Jim Carroll, Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems

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“My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication.”
― Dr Annabelle RC

tags: a-life-lived-ridiculously, bestseller, bestsellers, mother, mothers, mothers-and-daughters, mothers-respect

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“One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked.”
― Delano Johnson, Words That Changed the World

tags: inspirational-quotes, love, poetry, words

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¡ POETRY ! — 22597 members — last activity Dec 19, 2025 04:08PM
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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About writing, getting published, and publishing

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This group is for people who enjoy reading books published by independent publishers, and anyone who enjoys reading good books. We are not limited to ...more

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This group is mainly to use the various forms of social networking to bring authors and readers together. You mustn't be an author to join. ...more

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Musehick Publications is an independent publisher of exciting new works of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. With a mission to push the bound ...more

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The theme for the upcoming Saving Lives with Poetry contest will be 'Culture, Unity & Humanity'. Poems that are not in correlation with the contest th ...more

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May 29, 2017 02:57PM

Hey everyone here is my latest finished story. https://medium.com/@matthew.abuelo/wh...

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message 7: by Matthew

Apr 28, 2017 02:44PM

Please check out my fund raising page aimed at getting my latest manuscript published. https://www.patreon.com/posts/9499794
This link explains the project,

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Jan 03, 2016 08:04PM

Here is a link to my more recently published piece.

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Newest place to buy my book.

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Hello Everyone:

Please checkout my updated site.

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Jul 22, 2012 10:39PM

http://plainviewpress.net/gallery2/pages/The-News-Factory.htm

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message 1: by Matthew

Dec 01, 2010 10:04PM

The News Factory is a collection of poetry and short stories that takes a look at the lives of those people and places that are quickly being white washed from the New York City's history. The characters in this collection includes, the artists of the Upper West Sides SROs, the homeless, former model who was once featured in Glamor Magazine and the musician walking on the brink of insanity. My aim for this work is to keep alive those memories of what the city once was, the iconic home for outcasts and so called weirdos.

This book is my way of paying homage to those places where out of work beats could crash for the night or where the stars could really shine.

http://kck.st/ffqHgL

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