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Deirdre M. Murphy

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I've got this new story in my head, and my mind is engrossed in thinking about that other person, in that other world, and is resisting thinking and writing about me right now.

I hope that you don't mind me leaving this space under construction in the meantime. ...more

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YsabetWordsmith is writing poetry today!

Elizaeth Barrette's Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Ethical Supervillains."

When the "great" Heroes
Aren't what you wish they would be
Turn to the villains!

(The #haiku is my hint at a possible theme for her #poetry.)

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New folk welcome! A new prompter or sponsor also means she'll post an extra free poem.

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	Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jennifer Brozek (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Kelly Jennings (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	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
	Broad Spectrum: The 2012 Broad Universe Fiction Sampler by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Goodreads Author), Marcy Arlin, Jennifer Brozek (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	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
	Re-Vamp by L.C. Hu (Goodreads Author), Die Booth (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Deirdre M. Murphy (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	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
	Tails of the Pack by Steven E. Wedel (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Rebecca L. Brown, Tiffani Angus (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	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
	Trafficking in Magic, Magicking in Traffic by David Sklar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sarah Avery (Goodreads Author) (Editor), E. Grace Diehl 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	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
	Crossed Genres Issue 22: Bildungsroman by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly Jennings (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	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
	Family Ties and Torn Skies by Elizabeth Barrette (Goodreads Author), Deirdre M. Murphy (Goodreads Author), Valerie J. Higgins 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	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
	Crossed Genres Issue 12: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered & Queer by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kate Bachus (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 3 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

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Storm of Locusts (The Sixth World, #2)

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I'd rather play at hug o' war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
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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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