Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum hosted a reception to showcase "Our Poetic Tribute to Amelia Earhart"
in honor of April 2012 National Poetry Month! Produced by Broward County, Florida Poet-in-Residence Anastasia Clark, who worked for a year bringing awareness, readings and workshops around South Florida. Many of the poets that participated got to see the poetry collection before it leaves on its way to the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, in Atchison, Kansas. The heirloom quality album features three original artworks by Shae Leighland-Pence and the works of 42 emerging and established poets with 49 poems from South Florida, California, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia and Utah. The cover was hand-crafted by LeatherScrapBook.Com, Inc. Copies of this special collection will be available for display at the following locations in time for April 2012 National Poetry Month.
List as of March 29, 2012:
in honor of April 2012 National Poetry Month! Produced by Broward County, Florida Poet-in-Residence Anastasia Clark, who worked for a year bringing awareness, readings and workshops around South Florida. Many of the poets that participated got to see the poetry collection before it leaves on its way to the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, in Atchison, Kansas. The heirloom quality album features three original artworks by Shae Leighland-Pence and the works of 42 emerging and established poets with 49 poems from South Florida, California, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia and Utah. The cover was hand-crafted by LeatherScrapBook.Com, Inc. Copies of this special collection will be available for display at the following locations in time for April 2012 National Poetry Month.
List as of March 29, 2012:
- Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, 223 North Terrace Street, Atchison, KS 66002.
- Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum, 4000 West Perimeter Road, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33315. This Museum will have a permanent display copy of the collection.
- Broward County Libraries Division: Southwest Regional Library, Dania Beach Paul DeMaio Branch Library, Margate Catharine Young Library, Miramar Branch Library, Stirling Road Branch Library and Weston Branch Library.
- Purdue University Libraries, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907.
- San Diego Air and Space Museum, 2001 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA 92101.
- Tennessee Museum of Aviation, 135 Air Museum Way, Sevierville, TN 37862.
- National Capitol Squadron, (A unit of the Commemorative Air Force). 12499 Beverly Ford Road, Brandy Station, VA 22714.
- Air Power Museum, (A unit of the Commemorative Air Force). 9600 Wright Drive, Midland, TX 79706.
- Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum, 1600 Air Museum Road, Hood River, OR 97031.
- 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum/Art Gallery, 3489 Tree Lane, Genesco, NY 14454.
- Heritage Flight Museum, 4165 Mitchell Way, Bellingham, WA 98226.
- Rensslaerville Library,188 Main Street, Rensslaerville, NY 12147.
- Cohoes Public Library, 169 Mohawk Street, Cohoes, NY 12047.
- National Women's History Project, 3440 Airway Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95403.
- Custom House Maritime Museum, New London Maritime Society,150 Bank Street, New London, CT 06320.
- International Women's Air & Space Museum, Burke Lakefront Airport, 1501 North Marginal Road, Cleveland, OH 44114.
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please e-mail the Webmistress with your link so she can post it. Thank you.
Click on Poet's names to visit their respective websites.
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 | Name Anastasia Clark “Areins” Ruth Bavetta Gabriella Berenyi Jordan Blake Minerva Bloom Heidi W. Boehringer Patricia Borders Howard Camner E’douard (Eddy) Curet Nathalie Day-Tolentino Linda Eve Diamond Nancy Doyle Pierre Dumaine Cheryl Ellis Joanne Endorf Natalia Escobar Donna Geary Jane Ellen Glasser Marni Graff James A. Graham Denise Hengeli Tom Howard Barbara Jean Kaufman Shae Leighland-Pence "C.E. Laine" Hannah Lewis “Thandeka” Manuel A. Lopez (Manny) Marie Lovas Kathy Macdonald H.E. Mantel “HaroHalola” Beth SKMorris, PhD Fabian Novoa Cara Nusinov Manny Ortega Gale Payne Angela Mary Piraino Sandra Robledo Nina Romano Lucille Gang Shulklapper Imad Siddiqui Bonita Smith Suzanne Thompson | Title of Poem(s)* “Amelia’s Pencil” “Queen Earhart” “Amelia” “Who has the last laugh?” “The Desire...The Passion…The Success…Amelia” “Time” “Amelia” “No Time To Be Afraid” “Goddess of the Skies” “Blue Black White Amelia’s Last Flight” “44 Minutes” “Queen of Flight” “I AM Truly Alive” “Night Flights” “To Amelia” “Compass Rose" “The Japanese Secret Handshake” “Amelia Earhart’s Radio Shack” “Aviator to Radio Shack” “Idle Idol” “Amelia Earhart” “A Poet that Soared” “Celestial Suffragette” “Earhart’s Last Poem” “Wings” “Wonder Woman” “Amelia’s Legacy” “On a Wing and a prayer” “Amelia You Go Girl!” “The Way to the Sky” “Fly High-A Tribute to Amelia Earhart” “A Calling” “I Thought This Was the Pacific” “HERE FOR LOVE” “Flight of Fancy” “A Tanka for Ms. Earhart” “The Air Dreamer” “She Wrote Poems” “Amelia Earhart, Opa-locka to heavens gate” “Dreamcatcher” “The Likeness of our American Eagle Amelia” “Farewell” “Courage” “Electra” “Amelia” “Canary” “Can’t let go of Amelia” “Meeley and Pidge” “World News” | Location Miramar, FL Tampa, FL San Clemente, CA Pompano Beach, FL Fort Lauderdale, FL Fort Lauderdale, FL Deerfield Beach, FL Allen, TX & Hollywood, FL Miami, FL Miramar, FL Tamarac, FL Dania Beach, FL Pompano Beach, FL Miami, FL Pembroke Pines, FL Hollywood, FL Miami, FL Davie, FL Lighthouse Point, FL Scranton, NC Pembroke Pines, FL Plantation, FL Fort Lauderdale, FL Hollywood, FL Maurertown, VA Miramar, FL Miami, FL North Miami Beach, FL Sunrise, FL Hallandale Beach, FL Boca Raton, FL Miramar, FL Coconut Grove, FL Homestead, FL Fort Lauderdale, FL Pompano Beach, FL Weston, FL Park City, UT & Fort Lauderdale, FL Coral Springs, FL Fort Lauderdale, FL Lauderhill, FL Hollywood, FL |
*All poems in this collection are copyright by their respective poets. All rights reserved.
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