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Dwayne M. Kilbourne

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Born

in Decatur, Georgia, The United States

August 04, 1981

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Dwayne Kilbourne is an avid writer, businessman, and scholar-practitioner who brings passion to both his writing and professional demeanor. Mr. Kilbourne has been an eager and passionate poet for over fifteen years now. He turned to poetry as a means for release and expression. In addition, he sought out to help others through his writings as well.

As a businessman, he has functioned in numerous managerial roles. Additionally, he has run his own small business in the business and technology services, providing solutions to many along the way. In addition, Dwayne served the country through the United States Marine Corps Reserves between June of 2000 and February of 2008. During this time, he learned more about teamwork and dedication, and he ...more

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Reflections on Life's Roller Coaster Rides: 100 Poems of Circumstance

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008

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The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking

by Mikael Krogerus

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Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies)

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Social Media and Public Relations: Eight New Practices for the PR Professional

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“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
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“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
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“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
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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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