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“I know a little Puerto Rican restaurant that’s open until two. You good with that?”
― Aly Martinez, The Fall Up

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“Learning to love yourself from scratch takes time and work.”
― Sudesna Ghosh, The Perfect Fake Boyfriend

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“Invisible fingers had reached into her mind that day, found the flame of memory and pinched it out.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Give Me Your Answer True

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“read—and”
― Nikki Sloane, The Initiation

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“Aquel que permite que el miedo lo gobierne, convierte el miedo el su amor".”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Embrace

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Gold Wake Press — 182 members — last activity May 21, 2010 02:18AM
Gold Wake Press publishes poetry, & plays/novels-in-verse. ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22590 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
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

PilipinxPages Book Discussion — 15 members — last activity Feb 24, 2021 09:52AM
A Filipinx-focused book group! Recommendations & discussions! ...more

All LOCKEd up — 4535 members — last activity Dec 29, 2025 09:10AM
A place to discuss books written by USA Today Bestselling author Adriana Locke.

Sisters Of Romance — 470 members — last activity Jan 25, 2024 10:59PM
The African-American Romance genre has expanded by leaps and bounds. This group invites writers, readers, and dreamers to share the love.

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