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Jessica Holter

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Poetry, Fiction, Mystery

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Walter Mosley, Maya Angelou, Ethridge Knight

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July 2008

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Jessica Holter is a writer, public speaker, visual artist, and theatrical producer, best known for creating The Punany Poets in 1995. Also known as Ghetto Girl Blue, she is a pioneering figure in Black erotic spoken word. Holter has authored multiple titles, including the poetry collection Verbal Penetration and the novel The Punany Experience, published by Zane’s Strebor Books through Simon & Schuster.

With the recent release of her new book, Truth is a Trap House, her classic series Punany: The Hip Hop Psalms is gaining new audiences. While the original coffee table book is out of print and coveted by collectors, Black Love American Style, The Onliners, and Secret of the Pearl are available on Amazon. Speak the Unspeakable is also a fan fa ...more

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	The Punany Experience: The War Between Tops and Bottoms 3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2010 — 11 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
	Verbal Penetration: Punany Poets 4.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2007 — 8 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
	Punany : The Hip Hop Psalms 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	Punany: The Hip Hop Psalms II:Black Love American Style (Punany The Hip Hop Psalms Book 2) by Jessica Holter (Goodreads Author), DJuna Blackmon (Goodreads Author), Kenita James 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003 — 5 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
	Ghetto Girl Blue's Art Book with Haiku Poetry by Jessica Holter 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Verbal Penetration by Jessica Holter (Goodreads Author), The Punany Poets 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001 — 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
	Speak the Unspeakable 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003 — 8 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
	Cancer of Love: Poetry for Lovers and Cynics it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	The Grave Mothers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 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
	Punany: The Hip Hop Psalms IV: Secret of the Pearl by Jessica Holter (Goodreads Author), Michelle Nelson (Photographs) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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

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Lady on Location

Lady on Location is an excerpt from my new book Truth is a Trap House. I hope you like it. ~ Jessica Holter

Lady on Location

Invited to the party on short notice
to get my hustle on in a
house built on a foundation of pain
It was raining on a hot day
in Atlanta, where the sun is God,
we don’t stay wet for long
I turn off the expressway,
take a left turn downhill,
drive by hustlers and hitters,
pass lurkers a Read more of this blog post »

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¡ POETRY ! — 22423 members — last activity Sep 06, 2025 03:48PM
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

Erotica Writers Salon — 70 members — last activity Nov 18, 2022 10:47AM
A place for writers and readers of erotica.

Fiction and Poetry Contests — 229 members — last activity Apr 30, 2015 10:51PM
A place to post deadlines and guidelines and purses and questions and encouragement re: contests and awards for fiction and poetry.

Eroitc Poetry — 1 member — last activity Jul 21, 2008 07:31PM
This book was created by Jessica Holter, Founder of The Punany Poets and is dedicated to Erotic Poetry. Come share your erotic thoughts, ideas, fantas ...more