Poetry

[close] Hello ready readers! Welcome to the Fellowship of the Word. Here we celebrate the one thing that rules us, finds us, brings us and in this literary alliance, binds us. Books. You can look forward to online book discussions, buddy reads, challenges, quizzes, contests, on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Goodreads. We'll also meet for face to face discussions and interactions every month. Follow us on IG and Twitter (@thereadyreaders) and join our Facebook group (The Ready Readers Book Club) to stay connected.

[close] 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.

[close] This group is for poets, published poets, and lovers of poetry. Do you have a published poetry book? Promote it here! Are you looking for reviews? Are you looking to review? This is the place for that. JOIN and connect with poets, readers and authors, invite others, and enjoy yourselves.

[close] A Book Club Named Desire is for the reading and discussion of mainly non-fiction, and some fiction books (and perhaps film) on the subjects of: desire, love, attraction, seduction, relationships, dating, eroticism, sex, marriage, etc. and any related topic, including personal development, fitness, fashion and style, etc. Books included will mainly be in (but not limited to) the genres of personal development and self-help; psychology and evolutionary psychology; practical guides and technique manuals; philosophy, history, spirituality; and classic literature and poetry. The book club is open to anyone (18+) of any gender and orientation who has interest in these subject areas and those who desire to improve their love/sex lives. Some books may be gender or orientation specific.