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I Fed My Kid To A Bird of Prey: Poems for overwhelmed parents

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Mel Schmitz and 1 other person liked Danielle Schnepf's review of I Fed My Kid To A Bird of Prey: Poems for overwhelmed parents: "Hilarious read that reminds us we aren’t perfect and we aren‘t alone in our failures. I bought this for a few other mom friends of little ones. The short poems also mean you can a read one or few between all the chaos of life with kids and finish a b" Read more of this review »
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Mel Schmitz liked YellowBookLover's review of I Fed My Kid To A Bird of Prey: Poems for overwhelmed parents: "Not only for overwhelmed parents but for everybody who wants to look at eduction with a smile and a wink . A perfect present for freshly baked parents . Beautiful yellow book should not be missed on bed table after the birth of the child. As a long t" Read more of this review »
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Mel Schmitz made a comment on Ms. T’s review of I Fed My Kid To A Bird of Prey: Poems for overwhelmed parents " I know the 'coffee and fear' days oh so well! That's part of the reason I set out to tell Fellow parents that 'I've been there too' For your thoughtful r ...more "
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Mel Schmitz made a comment on William Cavu-Litman’s review of I Fed My Kid To A Bird of Prey: Poems for overwhelmed parents " 'In all the best ways...a little bit wild' (I LOVE that phrase, it's like raising a child!) I'm glad you enjoyed this offering I wrote: Thank you for you ...more "
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Mel Schmitz made a comment on Nicola’s review of I Fed My Kid To A Bird of Prey: Poems for overwhelmed parents " I'm glad you found solace (in my love letter to the weary) And thanks for your kind words (they made me quite teary) We're all first-time navigators on ...more "
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Mel Schmitz made a comment on Veerle Ullrick’s review of I Fed My Kid To A Bird of Prey: Poems for overwhelmed parents " Thank you so much- your words are a gift- And reading them truly gave me quite the lift! Also, I do not recommend animal sacrifice: This was a 'parent-tr ...more "
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Mel Schmitz liked Emily Edwards's review of I Fed My Kid To A Bird of Prey: Poems for overwhelmed parents: "Very funny and refreshingly honest - Mel has a way of making people feel seen and heard. The perfect book for anyone in the trenches of parenthood!"
May 10, 2025 10:26AM · see review
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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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