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Ten Days in the Hills

by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)

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The Death of Jim Loney

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Lidie: The Further Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton: A Novel

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“Having authority is not the same as being an authority. Having the right and being right are not the same either.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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“Over time “Pikers” became accepted as a term that referred to people who were slow of speech, plodding, and not ambitious in business.”
― Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

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“The original Pikers from Kentucky and Missouri, in the words of pioneer diarist William Audley Maxwell, were considered “of a ‘backwoods’ class,”
― Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

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“It is known that 610,000 ethnic Germans were killed in Rumania, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

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“What the Red Army did in Germany was the darkest stain on its record in the war.”
― Max Hastings, Armageddon

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¡ POETRY ! — 22513 members — last activity Jul 17, 2026 05:50PM
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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FictionMagazines.com began as eFiction Magazine in 2009. What began as a single magazine has blossomed into a full magazine production company with a ...more