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Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

by Sean Platt (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 15, 2019 10:49PM

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Self-Publishing Like a Boss: Boost Amazon Sales, Choose a Book Topic & Get Book Writing Templates for Beginners

by James Antione Kennedy

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Git: Learn Version Control with Git: A step-by-step Ultimate beginners Guide

by Dennis Hutten

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Emily’s Quotes

“God is a woman
intimate at night
and a hung devil
in the morning”
― Ali Nuri, Rain and Embers

tags: eroticism, poetry, poetry-love, poetry-quotes, religion-and-philosophy

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“I've got words
residing inside me
freely meandering
reshaping a wasteland
into the prospect
of treasured home again”
― Ali Nuri, Rain and Embers

tags: beautiful-imagery, words-have-power, words-quotes, words-to-inspire-you, words-to-ponder

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“and in the soil
of his being,
a soul is planted
bearing the fruits
of his masterpiece”
― Ali Nuri, Rain and Embers

tags: beautiful-imagery, creation, god, religion, religion-and-philosophy

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“I'm afraid of waking up
to a world where you see
and I am not what you saw”
― Ali Nuri, Rain and Embers

tags: beautiful-quotes, grief-and-loss, love, love-poetry, poetry, sad-love, sadness-quotes, sight-quotes

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¡ POETRY ! — 22564 members — last activity Jan 26, 2026 02:43PM
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