“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 If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” -Donald Hall “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. 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

“God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” -Anne Sexton 'Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.' - Carl Sandburg Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) 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. Her next collection of stories, I Hold a Wolf by theEars, will be published in June 2020. Her most recent novel, The Third Hotel (FSG, 2018) was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. Her first novel, Find Me (FSG, 2015), was long-listed for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second collection of stories, The Isle of Youth (FSG Originals, 2013), received the Rosenthal Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Bard Fiction Prize. Her first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

She Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida.

Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida.

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