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Steven Michael Sanders

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Steven Michael Sanders My advice to aspiring writers, is to write. When you get that inspiration, that feeling inside you that matters, that stimulates your emotions, stop w…moreMy advice to aspiring writers, is to write. When you get that inspiration, that feeling inside you that matters, that stimulates your emotions, stop whatever you’re doing and write it down. If you let the discouragement of not selling your books, or the process of publishing, or the fact that you may suffer some kind of writers block and not finish your work, then you most likely won’t succeed. Just relax and write for the enjoyment of writing for your own satisfaction. Most likely, there will be others that like your work as much as you do(less)

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Steven Michael Sanders I’m currently working on the second book of poetry that I hope will be published by this fall. I’m also working on short stories for children and pare…moreI’m currently working on the second book of poetry that I hope will be published by this fall. I’m also working on short stories for children and parents about an old man and Walter the cat, a stray that wanders into the old man’s life and heart and the relationship between them.(less)

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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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