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Vicki Pettersson (SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC series) — 117 members — last activity Jan 13, 2009 08:47AM
For fans of the SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC series written by Vicki Pettersson. If you love Joanna Archer and Zoe Archer then this is the place for you!! You ...more

GoodReads Anti-Spammer Initiative — 77 members — last activity Jun 05, 2009 12:19AM
This group was started by a GoodReads Spammer that tricked people into joining it to gain hits to his website. He was deleted with prejudice by the Go ...more

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer — 494 members — last activity Oct 22, 2018 05:17AM
For fans of Stephenie Meyer and her incredible Twilight series! If you love Bella Swan, Edward Cullen and Jacob Black then come on in and talk about i ...more

Life on Mars Book Club — 21 members — last activity Jul 02, 2008 01:50PM
This is a selection of books chosen to be read in conjunction with Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International. Feel free to discuss the books here, ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22487 members — last activity Oct 07, 2026 06:07PM
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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