Category: Poetry

  • Questions

    A Letter from Jean(ne) Baret, a French herbswoman and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, to Her Son. Although many aboard Baret’s ship kept diaries, no first person accounts of Jean/ne’s direct experiences have been found. These series of letters imagines her words as she might have written to her children had they survived…

  • Help Wanted

    Humanity seeks assistance. Cruel playground of a planet requires transformational situation. All experiences welcome.

  • Posies to Poems

    We have a new afternoon card game; it’s called Posies to Poems. It’s similar to Apples to Apples but it involves Flowers and Poems, no fruit. Some of our guests have taken to playing it with darts which was never the intent, but we aspire to maintain our flexibility at the Half Century Mark. Posies to Poems…

  • Guess the Poet and a New Exhibition

    In April, thanks to my friend Mandy Smith, I will be exhibiting at the Weller Gallery, Fellows Riverside Gardens in Youngstown, Ohio April 24 – June 14, 2015. I’m pleased as punch to be able to empty the vault here at the Hotel for this special occasion. I’ll be showing 23 floral photographs that honor…