name association game

LK: Had to read the poem many times to get the full impact... enjoyed.

Kay Ryan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Ryan

http://poemhunter.blogspot.com/2007/...sider-art.html

KR- Very modern, original images!

Renée Ashley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Ashley
http://omniverse.us/poetry-renee-ashley/

RA: Interesting technique/narrative.

Ashley Bryan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Bryan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIMX9e2rcJw

Very interesting and very instructive! I loved the children book

Babette Deutsch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babette_Deutsch

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lioness-asleep/

BD: Enjoyed her sonnet... interesting that she fudged on the penultimate line - https://www.howmanysyllables.com/words/prisoner and used a sight rhyme for L11 and L14.

D.H. Lawrence... https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/d-h-lawrence

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/butterfly-8/

BD-Can´t say. Maybe it was on purpose.
D.H. Lawrence- Know his prose. I prefer his short stories to his novels.

Lope de Vega (Spanish Golden Age Baroque)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope_de_Vega

http://www.poetry-archive.com/v/tomorrow.html

LdV: Most prolific. HWL's translation of "Tomorrow" is quite beautiful.

Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwdk9JI8suE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violette_Szabo

VS- I am very impressed with the courage and the story of this woman soldier of World War II which used a poem as code.

Speaking of fight and courage I must again interrupt the alphabetical sequence:

Teori Zavascki
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...es-plane-crash

So sad to hear. Tragic.

Zoë Akins... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoë_Akins

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-the-wind-3/

ZA-Loved the poem. It seems that some of her films where shown here.

Ama Ata Aidoo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_Ata_Aidoo

https://kinnareads.com/2013/07/07/fo...ama-ata-aidoo/

AAA: A rather nice piece on an ancestor, if I scan properly, of renown.

A. E. Housman... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Housman

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love...he-cherry-now/

Housman-A beautiful poem about ageing!


Hartley Coleridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartley_Coleridge

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/52335

H.C.: Sweet sonnet, especially these two lines: Herself her all, she lives in privacy; God must be with her in her solitude!

Clara Blackwood... http://thetorontoquarterly.blogspot....ies-clara.html

https://clarablackwood.wordpress.com

CB-Interesting modern poem.

Bella Thorne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Thorne

Quite the young success story.

Theodore Roethke... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roethke

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dolor/