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Amy is Currently Reading

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Fish in a Tree

by Lynda Mullaly Hunt (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 07, 2019 06:28PM

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The Orchid and the Dandelion: Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive

by W. Thomas Boyce

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May 25, 2019 04:45PM

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Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It

by Eric Jensen

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Amy’s Quotes

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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¡ POETRY ! — 22318 members — last activity Mar 27, 2023 11:25PM
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

Newbery Books — 395 members — last activity Sep 26, 2013 02:37PM
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