¡ POETRY !
| group name | ¡ POETRY ! |
|---|---|
| group topic | Books & Literature -> Poetry |
| location | Brooklyn, NY |
| website | http://www.amyking.org/ |
| group type | This is a public group. Anyone can join and invite others to join. |
| description | 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 “I think one of poetry’s functions is not to give us what we want… [T]he poet isn’t always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.” —Heather McHugh “I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile” —Frank O’Hara |
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New Members and Seasoned Ones Too!
By Amy King — 28 posts (28 new) — last updated 9 days ago, 01:02PM
By Amy King — 28 posts (28 new) — last updated 9 days ago, 01:02PM
New member to goodreads and Poetry
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Discussions about submitting to journals
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By Malcolm Alexander — 20 posts (20 new) — last updated 3 days ago, 08:09AM
Ekphrastic and/or historical books
By Lesley Jenike — 5 posts (5 new) — last updated 3 days ago, 09:16AM
By Lesley Jenike — 5 posts (5 new) — last updated 3 days ago, 09:16AM
Need suggestions for eleven year old
By Granny Sandy — 16 posts (16 new) — last updated 14 days ago, 09:21AM
By Granny Sandy — 16 posts (16 new) — last updated 14 days ago, 09:21AM
I am rebuilding the poetry section at my bookstore....need help.
By Brian Foley — 9 posts (9 new) — last updated 18 days ago, 08:32AM
By Brian Foley — 9 posts (9 new) — last updated 18 days ago, 08:32AM
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"How Killer Blue Irises Spread" & "?" by Kelli Russell Agodon
By Malcolm Alexander — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 16 days ago, 11:32AM
By Malcolm Alexander — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 16 days ago, 11:32AM
An Opinion of the Question of Pornography, Szymborska
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By Tom McGohey — 1 post (1 new) — last updated 42 minutes ago
Calls for submissions to "Pirene's Fountain"
By Ami Kaye — 1 post (1 new) — last updated 25 days ago, 12:06PM
By Ami Kaye — 1 post (1 new) — last updated 25 days ago, 12:06PM
Poetry Sz: demystifying mental illness
By Jill Chan — 1 post (1 new) — last updated 28 days ago, 05:04PM
By Jill Chan — 1 post (1 new) — last updated 28 days ago, 05:04PM
DESIGNATE SHAMLOU’S HOME AS NATIONAL HERITAGE SITE!
By Mohsen Emadi — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 19 days ago, 10:13PM
By Mohsen Emadi — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 19 days ago, 10:13PM
Review of Kristin Prevallet's I, Afterlife (Essay Press)
By Megan Burns — 1 post (1 new) — last updated 52 minutes ago
By Megan Burns — 1 post (1 new) — last updated 52 minutes ago
William Logan's Homophobic "Review" of Frank O'Hara
By Amy King — 13 posts (13 new) — last updated 24 days ago, 04:45AM
By Amy King — 13 posts (13 new) — last updated 24 days ago, 04:45AM
I'm The Man Who Loves You by Amy King Reviewed by Brandi Homan
By Amy King — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 07/01/2008 03:00PM
By Amy King — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 07/01/2008 03:00PM
GARY SNYDER WINS 2008 RUTH LILLY POETRY PRIZE
By Ruth Bavetta — 3 posts (3 new) — last updated 4 days ago, 04:48PM
By Ruth Bavetta — 3 posts (3 new) — last updated 4 days ago, 04:48PM
I'm on the Moe Green Poetry Hour tomorrow!
By Shaindel Beers — 4 posts (4 new) — last updated 20 days ago, 01:58AM
By Shaindel Beers — 4 posts (4 new) — last updated 20 days ago, 01:58AM
a discounted writing retreat
By Daniel Sumrall — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 21 days ago, 04:24AM
By Daniel Sumrall — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 21 days ago, 04:24AM
co-hosting Moe Green this time...
By Shaindel Beers — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 1 day ago, 02:33PM
By Shaindel Beers — 2 posts (2 new) — last updated 1 day ago, 02:33PM
New Poetry Album on Internet Archive Come Listen
By c.a. leibow — 1 post (1 new) — last updated 1 day ago, 02:32PM
By c.a. leibow — 1 post (1 new) — last updated 1 day ago, 02:32PM
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