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ﾂ｡ POETRY ! — 22483 members — last activity May 05, 2025 04:51PM
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!) ﾀﾏｻ｢ｻ昀ﾈﾓｮｷｽｷｨ honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg 窶廨od has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.窶� 窶尿nne Sexton On Clouds 窶� 窶懌ｦ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窶ｦ窶� 窶悩evgeny Zamyatin 窶廬f the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn窶冲 wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.窶� 窶妊onald Hall 窶弃oetry 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窶冱 tears in shoulder blades.窶� 窶韮oris Pasternak 窶弩anted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.窶� 窶任harles Simic 窶廰anguage 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.窶� 窶濡ustave Flaubert 窶弃oetry is not an expression of the party line. It窶冱 that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that窶冱 what the poet does.窶� 窶尿llen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women窶冱 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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