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Celena is Currently Reading

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The High Mountains of Portugal

by Yann Martel

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"There are many ways in which life's little centre can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all." — May 14, 2016 11:28PM

Mar 21, 2016 08:08PM

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

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"I ask no more than to live a hundred years longer, that ai may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory. Pierre Aronnax on Nef Land" — Apr 16, 2016 06:25AM

Apr 16, 2016 06:05AM

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Rooftoppers

by Katherine Rundell

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"A murmuration: what a wonderful word!" — Feb 22, 2016 03:46AM

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Celena’s Quotes

“Ours is the fellowship of strangers who know a secret that we cannot express.”
― Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

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“...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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“Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape”
― Ellen Gilchrist, The Courts of Love: Stories

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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