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¡ POETRY ! — 22499 members — last activity Aug 31, 2026 04:34PM
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

Star Wars Reads Panel — 1009 members — last activity Apr 30, 2024 05:10PM
It's back! Join us on Saturday, October 5, 2013 for a special day-long discussion of Star Wars. What does it take to write about a book that takes pla ...more

Super Hero High — 46 members — last activity Jun 20, 2018 03:45PM
Ok so this groups main idea is roleplay a bunch of superheros or villians when they were in their teen years. So you create your character of existing ...more

Avengers Assemble! — 225 members — last activity Nov 10, 2023 06:04PM
For all you Marvel nuts, old and young, new or long-time fans...this is the group for you! Discuss comics, talk about the movies, and have tons of fun ...more

Ox's School for Gifted and Marvellous Youngsters (X-men, Justice League and Avengers RP) — 65 members — last activity May 29, 2018 03:58PM
This is connected to Ox's School, Stark Tower, The Nine Worlds, Hellfire Academy, Earth(Marvel), S.H.I.E.L.D and S.H.I.E.L.D's High. If you made a cha ...more

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