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Miggy Angel

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Miggy Angel is the author of the poetry collections Extreme Violets, and Grime Kerbstone Psalms.

Miggy is a poet, performer and workshop facilitator. He facilitates weekly workshops for writers in addiction recovery, is the founder of the Do or Die poets, co-organises the monthly poetry event Speech Therapy, and also takes creative writing workshops into schools.

Miggy is editor and founder of Burning House Press.

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Our Death

by Sean Bonney

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Killing Plato (New Directions Poetry Pamphlet)

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Miggy’s Quotes

“Only poetry isn't shit.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: poetry

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“Nobody reads poetry anymore
So who the hell are you
I see bent over this book?”
― Aleksandar Ristovic

tags: poetry, serbian-poetry

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“It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.”
― James Broughton

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“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
― Robert Bresson

tags: inspirational

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“Practice the precept: find without seeking”
― Robert Bresson

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¡ POETRY ! — 22532 members — last activity Apr 13, 2026 03:25PM
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

Word Riot Press — 152 members — last activity Jan 05, 2010 11:28AM
For fans of online literary magazine Word Riot and its small press extension Word Riot Press

Flash Fiction — 310 members — last activity Feb 22, 2023 07:56AM
Flash is a short-short story characterized by brevity and intensity of the language. It borderlines poetry and some people call it “prose poem.” Howev ...more