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Peter L. Atkinson

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Born in Seattle, Atkinson grew up mostly in New York and various places in Europe attending some twenty-two schools before completing his secondary education in Ireland. Some years later he began his undergraduate work in mathematics at N.Y.U, where he was admitted to the Ph.D. program before becoming a naval officer for nearly six years. Thereafter he and his brother owned and operated a company that developed and/or built mid-rise apartment buildings in the New York area. His post-graduate education includes an M.F.A. in poetry and a Ph.D. in philosophy with a dissertation on the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger. He has taught courses in philosophy and/or English literature. At other times in his life he has earned his living as ...more

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Eros and Scheherazade

There was a moment in my apartment many years ago, when a certain wife-to-be, for she is also otherwise now, and I must have felt the same kind of confused excitement Badr al-Din and Sit al-Husn experienced on their wedding night a thousand years before. The story of these young people gets picked up at the place where two brothers, the couple’s respective fathers, who, one morning, when the boys

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Making Game: An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things,and the Strangeness of Being Who One Is (Cultural Dialectics Series)

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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