Category: David Sklar
Giorgos Seferis calls the Poetry Crisis Line (illustrated)
Read the original here.
Cattle adapted from cave paintings in Lascaux, France. Warriors adapted from Greek pottery.
If All Poems Were Limericks: “Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too” by James W. Hall
Crow calls the Poetry Crisis Line
Crow’s dialogue based on “Examination at the Womb Door” in Crow by Ted Hughes. [and yeah, in the original he’s the one answering the questions, but that would result in a caller who just says “Death. Death. Death.” most of the time.]
How to Breed Mythical Creatures
Anonymous calls the Poetry Crisis Line (illustrated)
Langston Hughes calls the Poetry Crisis Line (illustrated)
Excerpted from “Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes.
Costume Ideas for Poets Part 2: More Options for Women
Because a friend rightly pointed out that the last post didn’t offer a lot of options for women to choose from.
Costume Ideas for Poets
The Gates of Hell call the Poetry Crisis Line
[side by side (with a little overlap), they look something like this]:
From Dante’s Inferno, Canto III
Illustration by David Sklar. Additional artwork by Hieronymus Bosch.