Ann Arbor Review

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Paul B Roth
Duane Locke
Alan Britt
Silvia Scheibli
Steve Barfield
Duane Locke
Alex Ferde
Kristina Krumova
Richard Gartee
Lyn Lifshin
Gale Acuff
Alicia Mathias
Sunday Eyitayo Michael
Running Cub
Laszlo Slomovits
Shutta Crum
Solomon Musa Haruna

Elisavietta Ritchie
Yuan Hongri
Helen Grigya
Fahredin Shehu
Karyn M. Bruce

Robert Nisbet
Deji W. Adesoye

Michael Lee Johnson
Keith Moul
Jennifer Burd

John Grey
Rekha Valliaypan
Fred Wolven


Ann Arbor Review

is an independent

International Journal & ezine

Copyright (c) 2019 Francis Ferde
All rights revert back to each poet.
--editor / Southeastern Florida
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AAR history note:  in print 1967 - 1980.  Irregular publications 1980 - 2004.  As ezine 2004 - present. Most of 47 years all together....

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Francis Ferde
Silver Grey Fox
Running Cub
Fred Wolven
 

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A BIRTHDAY POEM,
A VARIATION IN PROCESS

             for Duane Locke**
              
        on turning 97

  R. I. P.  Dec. 29, 1921 – Feb. 17, 2019

When first you approach your birthday,
you write of Lind Call,

  a memory vivid,
the recall clear,

filled with references
                                    to artists, real and other,
                                    rolling through experiences,
                                    actual and fantasy
but fantastic all. 

It seems that you have this continuing knack,
this unlimited ability to—

      having established
      one’s self as

a valid, knowledgeable,
                        insightful seer
                        of the varied
                        spatial and color arrays,
                        those spreading such
                        on canvas with

 a certain aplomb
                           over ages—
          register
          with the suriety of seagulls skimming

   over winter turned whitecaps
   yet somehow
   undampened
                        unhesitating
   in near rhythm

                        with nature’s edges. 

 

** former Poet in Residence, Professor Emeritus, U T;
Editor, Publisher - Poetry Review, UT Review; Award
winning Poet; Prize winning Photographer; exhibited,
collected, unique Contemporary Folk Artist.

 

Fred Wolven, Southeastern Florida

 


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