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Suzzette Dawes was born in Jamaica then immigrated to the United States when she was fifteen years old. With this event, she experienced homesickness, culture shock and adaptation. You can find aspects of those traits in her poetry especially The Collection. Other influences such as and work-life balance have forayed in her poetry such as Tortured Souls. Stylistically she prefers to write free verse but has experimented with form in Adventures in the Courtyard. She writes on personal as well as newsworthy events and you can purchase her books on lulu.com and amazon.com.
She has participated in workshops led by Broward poet in residence, Anastasia Clark. Most recently she participated in the Sea Glass Poetry Project and joined in reading at ...more

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	Seventieth Avenue it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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National Poetry Month - 2026

I've been following the themes,

It is much harder than it seems.

When thinking about these themes

It feels like a door falling off its hinges:

Unhinged thoughts about what to paint

The images created sometimes don't match

The original thought. Words also tumble through...

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75th Anniversary Gala (at BACA in Pompano Beach)

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America

by Thomas L. Friedman

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Japanese From Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals

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Fluent Japanese from Anime and Manga: How to Learn Japanese Vocabulary, Grammar, and Kanji the Easy and Fun Way (Revised and Updated)

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¡ POETRY ! — 22505 members — last activity Jul 31, 2026 02:04PM
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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ePoetry is a magazine which focuses on the body of work for each poet it features rather than on just a poem or two. We are the latest project of efic ...more