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Rich Weatherly

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in San Diego, CA, The United States

December 17

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Mystery & Thrillers

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October 2011

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Rich Weatherly's professional career spanned several decades. Much of that career included technical writing and copy writing. He also worked in media production and corporate photography.

After retiring from the corporate world, Rich focused his attention on creative writing. He continues to work on a series of short stories, and a collection of works that will include poetry, photography and miscellaneous writings.

Rich Weatherly is a descendant of one of General Marion's militia at the Battle of Cowpens during the Revolutionary War. His maternal Great-Grandmother's father scouted western Dallas, Country and was numbered among the first 50 families to settle western Dallas, Co., Texas.

Rich is working on an historical fiction novel, Boundl ...more

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Press Release: Denton Poets’ Assembly Monthly Meeting and Critique Session

Denton Poets’ Assembly will meet on Saturday, December 15 at the Emily Fowler Public Library in Denton, Texas. Visitors and guests are welcome. We will begin our meeting at 10 a.m. by welcoming visitors, then members discussing chapter business … Continue reading → Read more of this blog post »

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	Closed Doors, a Trilogy 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2012 — 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
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Rich’s Quotes

“Pray for peace, hope for love, work towards a better community.”
― Sandra L Westendorf-Coelho

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“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life

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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

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“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

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¡ POETRY ! — 22553 members — last activity Mar 04, 2026 01:17PM
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 6: by Rafael

Apr 19, 2017 10:52AM

Hi Rich,
In date 04/27/17 my kindle book on Amazon will be FREE. It would be great if you could read my book in exchange for your honest review. I would greatly appreciate it.
The Chosen One

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message 5: by Rich

Nov 14, 2012 12:45PM

Faith wrote: "Hi there nice to see you on here! how are you doing

Faithx"

Hi Faith, I owe you a sincere apology. I need to check comments more often. I'm doing great. My book is getting awesome reviews.
I simply need to pay more attention to what's going on.
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Rich!

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message 4: by Bridget

Jan 08, 2012 01:35PM

Thanks for the friend request, Rich!

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message 3: by Rich

Nov 18, 2011 02:08PM

My Poem for an Autistic Child, based on The World According to August by Sandra Westendorf is today's headliner in The Autism Daily. It is based on a real scenario and an autistic child: http://paper.li/springingtiger/autism...

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message 2: by Rich

Oct 24, 2011 05:08AM

I'm well. Meant to ask if you felt tremors from the earthquake in Turkey. Didn't hear any stories about tsunami's. Suppose it was far enough inland to spare you that.

I owe you some reviews. I need to catch up and Amazon has lost some of the ones I've written. Couldn't find Children of the Plantation and thought I'd written one on The Crossing.

Take Care,
Rich

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message 1: by Faith

Oct 23, 2011 11:53PM

Hi there nice to see you on here! how are you doing

Faithx

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