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I am a writer. I tried to be many other things in my life and had my share of success in them, but there is nothing like finishing a poem or a short story where you get to say what you want, live where you want and create a world that is only possible in fiction yet pretty much relates to the life we lead day by day. I have published three books so far. The first two are poem collections, 'The Scream,' and 'Identity'. The third book is a short story collection, 'The Antichrist.' I am working now on my first novel and many other writing projects. I believe that when I give enough of myself to this career, it will finally reward me by becoming a full-time writer, but I am not gonna stop writing if that never happens because life is short and ...more

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Peace in No Man’s Land: The Story of ‘The Thaw’ & The Crucible

The Thaw: A Christmas Truce Story | by Danny Ballan

The world, for one impossible moment, held its breath. It smelled of frost, damp wool, and the faint, sweet scent of German pipe tobacco. My boot, caked in the pale, clinging mud of Flanders, drew back. Before me, nestled in a divot of frozen earth, was the sphere of our collective madness and hope: a sandbag stuffed with straw, cinched tight with

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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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