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My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?

– -- Walt Whitman

Austin Poetry Society

Auden is an interesting case. He believed that you should write drunk and revise sober.

– -- Nicholson Baker

Click here to buy our new anthology, Best Austin Poetry 2010 - 2011!

The Austin Poetry Society (APS) encourages the reading, writing, and appreciation of poems We bring poets and poetry lovers together to meet, mingle, and support each other. Click here to find out about our contests.


Above: Jenny Lind Porter scholarship award winner Ellie Francis Douglass (left), APS President Elzy Cogswell (center), and runner-up Adele Powers (right)

Listen up! Elzy Cogswell, Ralph Hausser, and Ellie Francis Douglass will be guests on Writing on the Air, co-hosted by Dillon McKinsey and Dora Robinson, from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM on KOOP 91.7 FM on Wed., Jan. 25th.

Monthly Meetings

We meet next on Feb. 18, 1:30-3:30 PM at the Yarborough Branch Library, 2200 Hancock Dr. Everyone welcome.

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Austin Poetry Society, P.O. Box 684672, Austin, TX 78768-4672

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