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Joe Kubert: 100 Years - A Life in Covers (2026-) #1 (Joe Kubert: 100 Years - A Life in Covers (2026))

by Joe Kubert

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Thor (1966-1996) #198

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Mind Over Muscle: Writings from the Founder of Judo

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“Vulnerability is about freeing yourself from the fear of failure,” she says finally.”
― Joe Siple, Charlie Fightmaster and the Search for Perfect Harmony

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“The Devil is God Hurt.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

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“What all of these interpretations have in common is that This World is not our destination. At all. It is the way through. We should use this place to prepare ourselves. What we do here will decide our portion in The World to Come.”
― Rachel Goldberg-Polin, When We See You Again

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“Yes, hope is still mandatory.”
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¡ POETRY ! — 22484 members — last activity Nov 09, 2026 12:22PM
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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What is Poetry. What it takes the author a book to say a Poet expresses in a Poem. You would think brevity is the soul of the poem till you consider t ...more

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Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Even though our main themes are horror, fantasy, and science fiction we also love other genres too which are re ...more

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Hi There! Welcome💖. We are a bunch of bookworms who love to discuss books and other things together. This is a safe space to freely express yourse ...more