"All is not lost"
Clerihew for Ezra...and Bob
by Mark Fleisher
"Pay attention without delay"
Clerihew for Edna
by Mark Fleisher
"You cannot help but love"
Clerihew for Rita
by Mark Fleisher
"You showed us how to savor the dark wind"
Clerihew for Lawrence
by Mark Fleisher
"Sharp as a tack"
Clerihew for Alexander
by Mark Fleisher
"Ebb and flow"
Clerihew for Edgar
by Mark Fleisher
"Do not disparage her youth"
Clerihew for Amanda
by Mark Fleisher
"His narratives may make you a tad nervous"
Clerihew for Robert
by Mark Fleisher
"We marvel at his literary feats"
Clerihew for John
by Mark Fleisher
"His poems resonate with rhythms of jazz"
Clerihew for Langston
by Mark Fleisher
"Her verses will touch your soul"
Clerihew for Amy
by Mark Fleisher
"Think of the word if"
Clerihew for Rudyard
by Mark Fleisher
"Long before a gypsy violin sang"
After Viewing Kerouac’s Original Scroll
by Christine Swanberg
"His poems were a litany of loss"
Acceptance
by Maralee Gerke
"Sea breezes opened windows to her mind"
At Home Among Friends
by Michael Escoubas
"Let the tide crash over the jetty onto the sandy shore"
Let Morning Come
by Paulette Demers Turco
"With visions of the Long-Ago"
When Riley Writes
by James Newton Matthews
"His words often erotic"
Clerihew for Leonard Cohen
by Candace Turner
"Too manly for the world today"
Clerihew for Ernest Hemingway
by Candace Turner
"She writes with beauty and clarity"
Clerihew for Sharmagne
by Candace Turner
"He captained his own ship"
Clerihew for Walt
by Candace Turner
"Hasn't the 19th century gone the way of London fog?"
Truth, Beauty
by Andrea Potos
“In the cavern of possibility, memories drip like stalactites”
Ode To A Writer’s Retreat
by Elayne Clift
"Penned her poems so sweetly"
Clerihew for Phillis
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
"Black water moves swiftly"
Black Water Suite
by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
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Ekphrastic Prompt & Word Prompt For May 2022
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Madison on my mind:
An interview with Gillian Nevers
by Neil Leadbeater
Publisher: Antrim House Books
Mapping a Life
Poems by Susan T. Moss
Mile Markers
by Tom Moran
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas
Our Shared Breath
by Carolyn Chilton Casas
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater
Underground River of Want
by Kathleen Gregg
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas
Publisher: Golden Foothills Press
Doctor Poets & Other Healers: Covid in Their Own Words
Editors: Thelma T. Reyna, Frank L. Meyskens, Jr., Johanna Shapiro
Publisher: Chicago Academic Press
A Dreamless Night
The Selected Chinese/English Poems of William Marr
Independently Published
poetry of the engineer
by Curt B. Vevang
Perfect tea for a chilly day
London Fog Tea
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Try these delicious scones with your tea and poetry
Sottish Scones
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Try these elegant tea-time cookies
Tuiles
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St.John
This traditional Welsh tea bread adds flavour to any tea party
Bara Brith
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Title Photo credit: The Harold Acton Library at the British Institute of Florence.
Robert Frost New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
Ezra Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Edna St. Vincent Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
Rita Dove by Gage Skidmore https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rita_Dove_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
Lawrence-ferlinghetti: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence-ferlinghetti-by-elsa-dorfman_(cropped).jpg
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