

“She never was able to surrender a feeling without a review of its peaks and low points.”
― Gingerbread
― Gingerbread

“The hardest was not having folk to say my noticings to, like if I saw a spider when I rinsed my hands in the basin. Or how I could make river waves by whipping the edge of dry bedclothes up and down, up and down.”
― Sin Eater
― Sin Eater

Welcome to ~Ink and Pen~ This is a mostly poetry-oriented group, trying to resurrect itself from the grave. Initially created by Shay, it was a fanta ...more

For all poets and poem lovers such as myself!

Women's book club/reading group oriented toward fiction, art, literature, criticism, and... Upcoming: -On Photography, Susan Sontag Past books in ...more
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