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Andrea Weir is an award-winning novelist, literary journalist and writing coach. Her novel A Foolish Consistency took first place honors in the Chatelaine Book Awards and was a finalist in four other national book competitions.

As a journalist, she has written thousands of feature articles. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the London Times and the New Delhi Times; Huff Post; and Elle, Self and Glamour magazines. Over the course of her career she has interviewed Nobel Laureates, celebrities, and even the Dalai Lama.

As a writing coach, Andrea is an expert at recognizing and developing a good story. She works with writers of all ages and aspirations, nurturing their skills, encouraging their curiosity, and hel ...more

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I’ve never understood the five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Well, what I don’t understand is the concept. It suggests grief is a process that has a beginning, a middle and an end, and at any point along the way you can actually stop and get your bearings. That you can look at the grief road map and say, “Well, I’ve passed through Denial and Anger, so I sho Read more of this blog post »

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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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