Poetry

[close] 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.

[close] The objective of this club is to analyze books and create a deeper understanding of the text, as well as share our thoughts and opinions on what we read. This is an open space and is meant to be for fun.

[close] Create and organize your own reading projects for the year under the listed headings. Post projects under each heading or multiple projects under any one heading. Feel free to add, subtract, and reorganize your projects at any time. Discussion will consist of what you want to share about the progress you have made in your projects or what you have learned when assessing your reading activity at any time during the year. MAIN RULE: HAVE FUN!

[close] HOUSE SORTiNG OUT NOW - https://forms.gle/geZP2ozd2f5B9WFFA --> every page that I wrote, you were on it --> if you are a fangirl who loves music like gracie abrams, taylor swift, olivia rodrigo etc and writing anything, stories, poems, songs and more than this group is for you (= --> please invite all of your friends (they must be gracie fans though) 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 1. get sorted into a house 2. play games whilst you wait 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐎𝐀𝐋 5 - reached (28th dec) 10 - reached (29th dec) 25 - reached (29th dec) 50 - reached (29th dec) 100 - reached (30th dec) 150 - reached (3rd jan) 200 - not reached !! 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐇 ꒰🕰️꒱ "Dance of Thieves” by Mary E. Pearson ꒰🪐꒱ “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L'Engle ꒰🕰️꒱ "The Jasad Heir” by Sara Hashem 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐇 ꒰🪐꒱ “Internet Girl” by KATSEYE ꒰🕰️꒱ “bittersweet” by Madison Beer ꒰🪐꒱ “NOBODY'S GIRL” by Tate McRae last updated jan 3rd layout above from the swift society --> https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1271890-the-swift-society