Elisavietta ritchie biography of albert

  • The latest collection of poems in Elisavietta Ritchie's long and distinguished career, a master poet reflecting on visual masterpieces.
  • Elisavietta Ritchie memorializes her close friend, fellow writer, Washingtonian, and Potomac Review contributor, Ann Knox.
  • A writer, poet, editor, translator and frequent teacher of creative writing, she is long associated with Washington Writers' Publishing House.

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    Stay Tuned! News Forthcoming!

    As the year begins to gather momentum, take note of these now and future publications and events.

    Also something being organized for a half-dozen poets from Southern Maryland to read in White Plains outside Baltimore; am considering an anthology of the bunch of us.

    Fred Wolven of ANN ARBOR REVIEW accepted a bunch of poems: View online

    Ginosko Literary Review accepted story "The Crawl Space" for issue 22 for Midwinter 2018-2019

    New pieces under consideration

    LUNATIC MOONS: INSOMNIA CANTATAS is in production at Shelden Studios and should be published this spring.

    Coming in April 2019:

    Visions of Verses, April 10 - May 5th

    Reception April 13 from 5-8pm at calvART Gallery

    A new anthology of poems by some dozen poets writing on some dozen paintings at calvART galleri in Prince Frederick; Michael Glaser fryst vatten masterminding this event. Stay tuned for updates.

    April 3, 2019 6:30 pm
    READING AT CROFTON LIBRARY

    Crofton Community Libra

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    Poetry Vol. CLXXIX No. 5 copyright February 2002, and in The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002, Joseph Parisi, editor, Ivan R. Dee, publisher, 2002

     

     

    HOW TO WRITE A VILLANELLE

    If you would write a villanelle
    Choose two of your most brilliant lines,
    Ones you should have jettisoned.

    Repeat them till you're bored
    And so's your reader if he's stuck
    This far through your villanelle.

    Do likewise if you find a perfect rhyme.
    Have no illusions that you are the first:
    Whoever was, he should have jettisoned

    All his favorite rhymes and lines.
    So should you. Try fancy foreign forms
    If you would write a villanelle.

    As with new lovers: you repeat a line
    Till you are bored and so is he or she,
    That line you should have jettisoned,

    For soon you may suspect that he's or she's
    A villain/villainess who does not care
    If you would write a villanelle.
    This one you should have jettisoned.

    Comstock Review, Spring 2007, vol. 21, number 01; Real Toads, Black Buzzard Pr

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    John "Gunboat" Pauker (1920-1991)

    BROTHERLY POEM

    All men are brothers
    Like Cain and Abel.

    This couplet constitutes John Pauker’s entire “Brotherly Poem,” and encapsulates both his idealism and his bitter realism. He helped more poets and writers around the world than anyone else alive in his time. Some were American, and free to write as they wished and to travel on international cultural exchanges. Others lived under threat of imprisonment in their own lands. Many were young and little-known, others older and revered, often neglected and persecuted by their country’s establishment.

    Pauker was born in Hungary and brought to New York in 1924, but many of his relatives died in the Holocaust. His working life took him to many continents, so he knew first-hand man’s cruelty to his fellows. Pauker embodied the beliefs of Albert Camus, that it is a writer’s duty to speak for the unknown prisoner at the other end of the w

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