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“The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

tags: autumn, first-frost, lost-lake, sarah-addison-allen

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¡ POETRY ! — 22547 members — last activity Mar 22, 2026 05:40AM
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

Q&A with M.L. Hamilton — 286 members — last activity Jun 28, 2014 06:14PM
Come join the author of the World of Samar series in discussions about reading and writing.

Q&A with author Frank Nappi — 145 members — last activity Dec 06, 2015 12:16PM
Dialogue with author Frank Nappi about his books, sports, autism awareness, teaching, and other issues of interest. Nappi is the author of Echoes from ...more

Debra Webb Faces of Evil Fan Club — 127 members — last activity Jan 16, 2015 05:55AM
A group for fans of the amazing Faces of Evil suspense series by Debra Webb!

Sentences: Book Donations to Prison Libraries and Juvenile Detention Centers — 124 members — last activity Nov 20, 2025 07:08PM
Our goal is to network readers with prison librarians and juvenile detention centers to determine their needs and donate books to their facilities.

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