Erwin A. Thompson & Janet Grace Riehl, father-daugther writing team
Click here to read article “The Write Stuff: Writers’ Club Co-Founder speaks to students” by Stephanie Kiszczak in The Telegraph online.
At the AHS Writers Club end of year celebration yesterday the past met the present and moved right on into the future.
Faculty, students, friends, family, and […]
My Man in Pakistan, Ernest Dempsey (aka Karim Khan)—a Man of Letters who is an author, editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer—responded to May Garsson’s challenge to write a poem in the experimental Tuanortsa form. Ernest Dempsey is a moving force with World Audience. He is President of World Audience, a publishing consortium, and editor-in-chief […]
The biggest throw-your-hat-up-in-the-air news on May 8, 1945 was VICTORY IN EUROPE - GERMANY SURRENDERS!
Click here to go to a site where you can hear a live report from Edward R. Murrow of CBS news standing in Piccadilly Circus in London”amidst a crowd of jubilant Britains celebrating the end of the war”.
Go to CBC News […]
A refugee is a person whose heart has been broken.
“My daughter, who was 11 at the time, also loves Bessie’s books and was deeply influenced by living for two years in Botswana. One of my favorite expressions from there is Ke moto fela - “I’m just a person.”–Barbara Bamberg Scott (Read her impressive […]
Hello poets!
May Garsson (maygarsson@yahoo.com) is collecting submissions for Clive Matson’s publication Crazy Child Scribbler using a new form called “tuanortsa” (astronaut spelled backward). This is a simple form, a poetic palindrome that reads more or less the same from top to bottom as from bottom to top.
Here’s an example May gives (taken from an excerpt […]
Erwin and Ruth Thompson snuggle up on a past wedding anniversary
Second Love
by Erwin A. Thompson
For the second anniversary of Ruth’s death, May 1, 2006
My first love was like a pansy,
brought too soon from the greenhouse’ sheltering glass.
A late frost took its vicious toll.
That love was never meant to last.
My second love was like […]
Flora, Goddess of Flowers
May first. May Day is a many-splendored thing with more official holiday designations than perhaps any other day of the year. I recall as a child weaving May Day wreaths from spirea branches cut from our bushes and hanging them on our neighbors door. I especially liked hanging my wreath on […]
