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Jo VonBargen

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I've written stories and articles all my life, but only began writing ...more

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Given my being born into a family with an engineer father and Christian minister Grandfather, I suppose I was an unlikely candidate to become a libertine poet! Nevertheless, here is where I find myself! I am a Texas author and poet who realizes that there is a vast, awake and alive universe of which we are indeed a very small part, thus my effort to elevate the discourse and take a look at the larger picture. Some would even point out metaphysical leanings in a lot of my work. My influences include Native American traditions and lore absorbed during my childhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Early poems were published under "J.J. King" and appeared in the New York Quarterly and other litmags. My husband has Asperger syndrome, an autism-relate ...more

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Is It Too Late For Dreaming the Big Dream? By Jo King VonBargen

Is It Too Late for Dreaming the Big Dream?

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. … there are no age limits for love.

Am I literally too old, too gray-haired, to be dreaming of my Final Love? The heart in me says NO!! Dream on, girlie, dream on!! I still feel the tugs in my nether-parts, my heart still thumps its longing, it is never, never, never too late!!

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	Over Fifty: Shades of Grey 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012	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
	From This Far Time (The Human Saga) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Thin Your Bones: Letters I Never Sent You really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	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
	Apocalypse or Renewal? 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Broom's Odyssey 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	OASIS 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	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
	Wordglow it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 3 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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“To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking.”
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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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message 3: by Tom

Feb 06, 2014 10:35AM

Hi Jo,
Thanks for joining my circle of friends.

Blessings,

Tom

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message 2: by Jo

Apr 11, 2012 08:41PM

Douglas wrote: "Jo, thanks for friending me on Goodreads. Always nice seeing your tweets on Twitter also!
XOX
Douglas"

Douglas, so good to see you here! Thank so much for your lovely comment!

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message 1: by Douglas

Apr 11, 2012 08:02PM

Jo, thanks for friending me on Goodreads. Always nice seeing your tweets on Twitter also!
XOX
Douglas

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