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Sandy Coomer I'm working on a collection of linked poems that follow a young woman through a painful experience, taking in the viewpoints of her parents, friends, …moreI'm working on a collection of linked poems that follow a young woman through a painful experience, taking in the viewpoints of her parents, friends, and neighbors.

I'm also working with the publisher of my next collection, Rivers Within Us, (scheduled to come out in Sept 2017) on marketing, collecting reviews on the poems, and establishing a poet/artist Facebook page.

Because I am also an artist and will be part of an art show in December 2016, I'm furiously working on new art every day. (less)

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Sandy Coomer I read. I take out a poetry book, one that has been sitting on the bookshelf waiting to be read, and I begin. While reading, I underline interesting p…moreI read. I take out a poetry book, one that has been sitting on the bookshelf waiting to be read, and I begin. While reading, I underline interesting phrases or words, make short notes on how the title works, or the musicality, or the imagery. Usually this is enough to spark an idea, one that takes me away from the poetry book I'm reading to the collection of poems I'm writing.

Another way to deal with writer's block is to take a walk and listen to music. Movement seems to free my mind from the panicky notion of self doubt. Music calms me and sometimes allows words to flow through the mood of the tune, the cadence, the lyrics. If you do this, don't forget to take a small notepad and pen with you, as you just might find a beginning line or a new snippet of images that could become the genesis of a new poem.(less)

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Compass Points - A Practical Guide to Poetry Forms: How To Find The Perfect Form For Your Poem

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The Best of It: New and Selected Poems

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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

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