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AKA @katerwriter, Kate promises to dance always with absurdity and paradox. She began her literary career writing bad poetry at age ten in Des Moines, Iowa. After working as a grocery clerk, nursing assistant and home health aide, city bus driver, museum aide, a variety of office assistant positions, and K-12 substitute teacher, all while studying (BA 1999, MA 2010) and raising a family, scribbling looked like a suitable diversion. Now she daydreams and whacks words amidst the iconic Saguaro and Organ Pipe cacti in the mystical Sonoran Desert.

Kate's stories, essays, and poetry appear in international anthologies and journals, and she also muses upon sundry digressions on the writing life at www.wordwhackingdreams.blogspot.com ...more

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	The Memory Eater by Matthew Hance (Editor/Contributor), Ken Liu (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Myra R. Taylor (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings — 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
	Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy by T.W. Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aaron Garrison, John Lemut 4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Heart of Desire: 11.11.11 Redux 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	The Contest and Other Stories by Joe DiBuduo (Goodreads Author), Kate Robinson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Best Served Cold: an eye for an eye by Christopher Ficco (Editor), John Rehg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Harris Tobias (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 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
	Lewis and Clark: Exploring the American West liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	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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"Present-day Earth, it can be confidently said, is as much our ethical proving ground as it is our pragmatic launching pad." Astrophysics, future studies, history, and philosophy meld in this discussion of "Great Filters"—the obstacles or calamities t ...more
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"To love a great magician is to live in astonishment and endure." Lyrical prose, an eye for drama, and a full helping of candor color the magical and not-so-magical memories of life on the road with illusionist Lee Grabel. Fourteen-year-old Katy is en ...more
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"She had made a home and would keep what she had made." The author taps into the deep well of her ancestry while exploring the lives of her grandmother and aunt as they navigate the slow but devastating ascent of Hitler in Nazi Germany. As many Jews s ...more
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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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“The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews
Not to be born is the best for man
The second best is a formal order
The dance's pattern, dance while you can.
Dance, dance, for the figure is easy
The tune is catching and will not stop
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, dance, dance till you drop.”
― W.H. Auden

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“And as I worked, the strength returned to my arms and shoulders, and the hope to my heart - not the mad hope of wealth and power that had led me astray, but a sweet and steady sense of the worth of what I was doing.”
― Jem Poster, Rifling Paradise

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“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

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“Or is it that alongside this track runs other lines - repetitions, variations, contradictions - echoes of all those lives we failed to live and the things we failed to do?”
― Alan Bilton, The Sleepwalkers Ball

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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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