John R. Godwin
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Sifting daily through the clutter of my mind trying to create something beautiful.
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2026 Weekly Reading List: 52 Contemporary Poets
Creating a reading list is a fantastic, selfish enterprise. That’s the joy of it. You’re not making a syllabus for students or a list based on some random, external criteria imposed on you. You get to make the rules.
By John R. Godwin18 days ago in Poets
Mama's Magic Whisper. Content Warning.
If you see The Champ in public, you will see him smiling, waving, signing autographs. Yet his pain is always with him. His ability to disguise his pain was a discipline he had been crafting since an early age, and over time it was welded and wrought to near perfection.
By John R. Godwinabout a month ago in Fiction
The Path from Destruction. Top Story - November 2025.
So I'm "here," parked in Joe Pye Weed Field on a warm October night, with Kenny, Nate, and Mark, three friends I've known since childhood. We're all in our early twenties. It's 1988. There's plenty of Budweiser and cheap vodka going around.
By John R. Godwin2 months ago in Humans
