The Harold Acton Library at the British Institute of Florence.

"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


Alexander Pushkin Photo credit Orest Kiprensky http://artportret.ru/?page=24

Edgar Allan Poe: Unknown author; Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerchan - Derived from File:Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored.jpg

Amanda Gorman Photo Credit (DOD Photo by Navy Petty Officer First Class Carlos M. Vazquez II)

Robert W. Service: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_W._Service

File: John Keats by William Hilton

Langston Hughes: Photo Credit  Carl Van Vechten https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LangstonHughes_crop.jpg

Amy Lawrence Lowell File: Houghton MS Lowell 62(5) - Bachrach.jpg

Rudyard Kipling: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rudyard_Kipling_(portrait).jpg
Note: Portrait appeared in a biography of Kipling written by John Palmer and published in 1895


Jack Kerouac photo credit; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kerouac_by_Palumbo_2_(cropped).png#mw-jump-to-license

Donald Hall
Photo credit: unknown  Public domain

Celia Thaxter (1835-1894), poet and writer~ Photo: public domain

Jane Kenyon
Photo Credit Wikipedia :FAIR USE  

James Whitcomb Riley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitcomb_Riley#/media/File:James_Whitcomb_Riley,_1913.jpg

Leonard_Cohen
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonard_Cohen,_1988_01.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Ernest Hemingway
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ErnestHemingway.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Sharmagne Leland St. John
Sharmagne Leland-St. John ~ Self Portrait c.1971

Walt Whitman
George C. Cox (1851-1903, photo) Adam Cuerden (1979-, restoration)

John Keats
Portrait of John Keats by William james Neatby (1860-1910)

Virginia Woolf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg

Phillis Wheatley
Possibly based on a portrait by Scipio Moorhead, in the frontispiece to her book Poems on Various Subjects.

 

Federico García Lorca
Photo credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fotograf%C3%ADa_anónima_MNCARS_4.jpg


Gillian Nevers
Photo credit:  Dan Nevers

Susan T Moss
Photo Credit: Hall Himmelstein


Tom Moran
Photo credit: Christine Moran


Carolyn Chilton Casas
Photo credit: Robin Barnes


Kathleen Gregg
Photo credit:  Charles Gregg.

Thelma T. Reyna
Photo credit to Micaela Accardi-Krown

Frank L. Meyskens
Photo credit to UC Irvine Comprehensive Cancer Center

Johanna Shapiro
Photo credit to Deane Shapiro

William Marr
2006, photo taken by Wen-An Tu

Curt B. Vevang
Photo Credit: Susan W. Vevang

 

 

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