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Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez

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Beatriz F. Fernandez is the author of The Ocean Between Us (Backbone Press, 2017) and Shining from a Different Firmament (Finishing Line Press, 2015) which she presented at the Miami Book Fair International. She has read her poetry on WLRN, South Florida’s NPR news station and was the grand prize winner of the 2nd annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Falling Star Magazine (2014 Pushcart Nomination), Fiolet & Wing: an Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry (2020 Pushcart Nomination), Label Me Latino/a, Minerva Rising, Spark: A Creative Anthology (winner of two awards, twice voted Reader’s Favorite), Thirty West Publishing House (2017 Pushcart nomination), and Writer’s Digest, among others.

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	Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Poetry by Stacey Balkun (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Catherine Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anna Weber (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility by Andréa Fekete (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lara Lillibridge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume 2 by Brian James Lewis (Editor), Robert J. Sawyer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Christine Edwards (Contributor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume V by Brian James Lewis (editor), Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Paul Pederson (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume III by Mika Hillery, Deborah Miller-Collins, Barbara Black 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Shining from a Different Firmament 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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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Voices, Visions, and Poetry: A Live Reading & Book Launch

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Virginia Watts, Tracing Bodies

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Asteroid 6 and Other Tales of Cosmic Horror

by R. David Fulcher

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“Hers is a timeless life weaving through other longer lives like a flash of lightning in a clouded evening sky.”
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“we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome”
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“Our past sins, our fractured lives--soon nothing but drowned stars in dark skies.”
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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

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“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

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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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