Poetry

[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] A group dedicated to reading books in their original language (Usually these are books translated into English). I thought it would be simpler to concentrate on classics, but anything is allowed as long as the book is originally in that language. Feel free to recommend books as well.

[close] Hi, I’m a 17 (almost 18) year old teen from CA, United States. I enjoy reading, but I just don’t do it regularly, and this if my first group that ever made here on this app. This is just a group where us older teens can bond together and talk about our favorite books, books that we might be interested in reading, give some book recommendations to each other, and mostly to meet new readers and have fun. I feel like this could be a perfect group for those who enjoy reading and also for those who are more relaxed with it. I will make sure that this group will be a safe zone for the LGBTQ+ community and also for the POCs. This isn’t going to be really serious but more of a social thing where we can meet up regularly and to also keep up with each other. NO TRUMP SUPPORTERS ALOUD HERE!!!

[close] Some of the world's greatest literature was written in New England during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This group will read and discuss the lives and works of authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Melville, Whittier, Alcott, Dickinson, and many others!