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Paul Goldman is an Ecstatic Poet, Author and Spoken Word Performer.

Goldman released the chapbook, Shades of Darkness/Open the Blinds, Calliope Club Press, in 2017.

His latest and longest collection, Silence Speaks, debuts from GenZ Publishing in 2018.

His third poetry collection Upon Your Canvas has been described by one reviewer, Author Paula Rosenfeld, as:

"Paul Goldman's poetry movingly explores the paradigm-shifting, inward journey of awakening - through an ecstatic dance with the Divine Within."

Paul Goldman produced the CD Wild Joy Released: The Ecstatic Poetry of Paul Goldman with the assistance of friend and extraordinary musician Tom Jacobs. Just a few short months after the CD
release, Wild Joy: Ruminations was published in 2010 by Ri ...more

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So it seems I have stumbled away from here for longer than I could have imagined.
GenZ published my latest ecstatic collection, Silence Speaks in 2018 and I had kept up my daily writing of poetry until 2020 when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.

Though I write and share poetry less often, I have been writing about my Parkinson's journey at my website, Shaky Foot Wisdom.

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¡ POETRY ! — 22582 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
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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Feb 18, 2016 12:38PM

Paul wrote: "Exciting News!! I will begin hosting Journey Into Oneness on Co-Creator Radio Network on Wednesdays from 4-5pm Central Standard Time.
Each week a new guest will discuss this awakening we have all e..."

Hi Paul I am interested if you are still hosting.

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Mar 28, 2012 08:09AM

Linda West, Author of 8 Keys: A Special Delivery Message from The Angels, will be my guest on Journey Into Oneness today Wednesday 3/28/12 on Co-Creator Radio Network. Join us: http://co-creatornetwork.com/hosts/on...

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Feb 12, 2012 11:12AM

Exciting News!! I will begin hosting Journey Into Oneness on Co-Creator Radio Network on Wednesdays from 4-5pm Central Standard Time.
Each week a new guest will discuss this awakening we have all embarked upon.
The first program is 2/15/12 and features Zen Master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi.
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