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Heather Kamins

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Heather Kamins is the author of The Moth Girl (Putnam/Penguin Teen, 2022). Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Guernica and various other journals, and her poetry chapbook, Blueshifting, was published by Upper Rubber Boot Books (2011). She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship in fiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Donald Axinn Returning Contributor Award in fiction from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She enjoys creating characters and worlds that explore the strange and unusual, and believes that sometimes the strangest world of all is this one.

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	The Moth Girl really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 2022 — 3 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
	Blueshifting 3.90 avg rating — 20 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
	Betwixt Issue 10 by Joy Crelin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Giovanni De Feo, Crystal Lynn Hilbert (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 023 by Jennifer Lyn Parsons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tara Calaby (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jessamy Dalton it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 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

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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

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The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class

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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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Oct 19, 2012 04:35AM

J.C. wrote: "thanks for friending me! have a great weekend.

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Oct 19, 2012 12:36AM

thanks for friending me! have a great weekend.

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Swapnil wrote: "Thanks for accepting the friend request..Absolutely loved your poem 'Devolution' posted in POETRY group newsletter contest..!!"

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