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Tony Young Jr.

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The United States

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Poetry

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Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, and William Shakespeare

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March 2013

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Actor, Author, Photographer, and Writer! My goal is to inspire readers to enjoy life, be responsible, and be kind during our short time in this world. Hopefully, many will read my first published book, Therapy through Poetry, to gain a different and better perspective on life.

I like to write about love and social justice, as I think we need much of both to survive in this world. In the interim, I'm capturing my thoughts and travels along the way through photography and my interactions with others to create positive dialogue. ...more

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Los Angeles Off the Beaten Path (Off the Beaten Path Series)

by Lark Ellen Gould

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Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

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A Room with a View

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The Poetry Spot — 606 members — last activity Sep 09, 2025 05:02PM
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 ...more

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Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more

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When anyone on the TODAY team is looking for a book recommendation, there is only one person to turn to: Jenna Bush Hager. Jenna will select a book a ...more

ILLUMINATION Writers on Medium - Collaboration Group — 74 members — last activity Apr 12, 2025 05:07AM
The purpose of this group is to bring Medium writers who are published authors. We discuss about writing topics, prompts, and challenges. We share our ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22422 members — last activity Sep 07, 2025 10:02PM
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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