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Anthony Watkins

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Born

in Jackson, The United States

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http://anthonywatkins.wix.com/betterthanstarbucks

Genre

Poetry, Historical Fiction

Influences

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March 2011

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Publishers of Better than Starbucks: betterthanstarbucks.org

There is little about me that isn't already available at Facebook or Linkedin, or countless other places.

Poet, writer, construction worker, salesman, truck driver, climber into the attics of total strangers, father and husband, and all around one of the luckiest men on the planet.

My luck continued with wins in the June 2013, December 2014 and April 2016 Goodreads Newsletter
Poetry Contest! What an honor!

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Since 2008, the poets I have met thru Shelfari, Goodreads (especially the gang at Poetry) and Ablemuse, and now most strikingly, the professor, Al Filreis, his sta ...more

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Average rating: 4.38 · 13 ratings · 5 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Warm Enough for Ice Cream 4.40 avg rating — 5 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
	Rusty Tractors 4.20 avg rating — 5 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
	Written in Darkness it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Hard Okra and the Seed Pod Trees really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	May's Hill 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	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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A matching pair of garden poems

The Winter in the Garden

The overgrown flowering vines

so recently covered in brilliant

yellow and orange and red and white,

now stand ghostly withered,

dead in their brown winter clothes.

I sit, in my heavy thrift store long black wool coat.

Coffee and sunshine fighting off the worst of it.

Dark green paint on the iron of the gate

and pocked and dirty white bench.

The neighbor’s cat sleeps on the other be

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― Anthony Watkins

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“Quotes? you want quotes?

To sound important, quote yourself”
― LeTony Quas Marrazo

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“What's time to a pig”
― Persimmon Growing Pig Farmer

tags: old-jokes

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“We will burn that bridge when we get to it”
― Napoleon's Smarter Brother

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“The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying”
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¡ POETRY ! — 22522 members — last activity May 20, 2026 01:47PM
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

Better Than Starbucks — 233 members — last activity Mar 30, 2026 02:28AM
We are Better Than Starbucks! If you like good coffee (or just the concept of coffee), great books, and sharp wit, and if authors like these excite yo ...more

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A forum for friendly discussion of classics, literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. We also love movies and art. Don't ask to join th ...more

Classics and the Western Canon — 4957 members — last activity May 20, 2026 06:54PM
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more

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Proverbs 17:22 says, "A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." Proverbs 18:14 asks the question, "A man's spirit s ...more

The Gothic Poets Society — 402 members — last activity Dec 31, 2024 07:03PM
Wits, Words & Spirits! Who Are We? We are a group of like minded individuals who haunt dark halls and cemeteries, armed with pens, books and black li ...more

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