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The end of a blog

2011-05-08T08:21:00.000-07:00

The Poetry Society of Georgia has received funding to switch form a blog site to an active website. Therefore, this site will be kept as an archival record of entries but please direct yourself to our new website for current information and events. Thank you all for your support, subscriptions and interest.

www.poetrysocietyofgeorgia.org

Linda Lee Harper poetry Reading

2011-03-07T10:32:00.001-08:00

The Poetry Society of Georgia would like to invite you to a free Poetry Reading by Linda Lee Harper on Thursday March 10th at 7pm.

Linda Lee Harper lives in Augusta, Georgia, and was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her BA & MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She taught there, University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s Continuing Education
program and at the University of South Carolina-Aiken.

Her work has appeared most recently in: The Georgia Review, Nimrod, The Seneca Review, Rattle, and 85 other journals. Her book “Kiss Kiss” was selected as the winner in
Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Open Competition for 2007.

The reading will be held at the Trinity Church, 225 West President Street, just across the street from the Jepson Art Center.

From 7pm to 7:30pm we invite local poets to share the stage in an open mic. Vaughnette Goode-Walker will be organizing the session. Harper's reading will begin at 7:30pm.

Feel free to check out our new website for any further details and future readings www.poetrysocietyofgeorgia.org

This program is sponsored by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs’
Weave -A- Dream and the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations from the National Endowment for the Arts.

David Bottoms at the Savannah Book Festival

2011-02-08T16:36:00.000-08:00

The Poetry Society of Georgia is proud to sponsor David Bottoms at the Savannah Book Festival 2011!

Bottoms was born in Canton, Georgia in 1949. His first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was selected by Robert Penn Warren as the winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He received a fellowship at Florida State University, where he earned his Ph.D. In 1982 he took a teaching position at Georgia State University, and co-founded Five Points, a literary magazine. In 2000, Bottoms was appointed Georgia’s Poet Laureate.
The reading is at the Savannah Book Festival on Saturday February 19th at 3:30pm in the Jepson Boardroom. 121 Barnard St. You can contact us at poetryknows@gmail.com

You can check out further details of the Book Festival at: http://www.savannahbookfestival.org/
Be sure to support and partake in this event and keep the literary arts alive and well in Savannah.

This program is sponsored by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs’ Weave -A- Dream and the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jim Snowed in!!

2011-02-08T16:32:00.000-08:00

Unfortunately, Jim Warner was unable to make it for the reading of January 27th. But we are trying to reschedule for May! We'll keep you posted.

We did have a great open mic session though! Thanks to all the poets who shared and Tony Morris read for us in Jim's place and a fantastic evening of poetry was concocted regardless of snow in the North! Thank you Tony!

Poetry Out Loud!

2011-01-22T11:41:00.001-08:00

It was my pleasure to serve as one of the judges at Savannah Arts Academy for their Poetry Out Loud competition. The contestants were all very talented and put on wonderful performances. The Society has made them all honorary members and can't wait to see more of them on the poetry scene.

Trey Dugas won first place with his performance of Carl Sandburg's I am the People - the Mob and the runner up was Jack Wagner with his performance of Shakespeare's Blow Blow, the Winter Wind.

Thank you SAA for letting the society partake in such an awesome expression of poetry here in Savannah and good luck to Trey as he heads on to the State championships - We're behind you 100%.

Start 2011 with poetry!

2011-01-16T17:35:00.000-08:00

Thursday January 27th 7pm - 8:30pm Poetry reading and Open mic session.

Jim Warner is the author of the poetry collection Too Bad It’s Poetry (Paper Kite Press). His poems have appeared in The HazMat Review, mid rib, Hecale, In The Arms of Words: Poetry for Disaster Relief (Sherman-Asher), and elsewhere. He is the Assistant Director of Graduate Creative Writing Programs at Wilkes University.

Open mic for all poets begins at 7pm. Reading begins at 7:30pm. Admission is free so come support the literary arts in Savannah. Books and paraphernalia will be for sale after the reading

Telfair Academy at 121 Barnard St Savannah GA

contact poetryknows@gmail.com with any questions

This program is sponsored by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs’ Weave - A - Dream and the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Free week at the Jepson

2010-11-16T18:00:00.000-08:00

Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity!

Free week at the Jepson Center!

Tuesday, 16 November, 2010

Starts at 09:00 AM

Visitors enjoy a week of free admission to the Modern Masters, Kahlil Gibran, and No Ordinary Folk exhibitions at the Jepson Center, from November 13 - 19, 2010.

http://telfair.org/

Open mic!

2010-11-16T17:40:00.000-08:00

The Poetry Society of Georgia is offering an Open mic session to open for our guest poets. So come out and grab the chance to preform your work in a great and historic location and then stay for a free poetry reading. Our guests come from across the US and we are very excited about our line up this year...

Thurs. Nov. 18th - Doris Davenport- Jepson Auditorium
Thurs. Jan. 27th - Jim Warner - Telfair Academy
Thurs. Mar. 10th - Linda Lee Harper - Jepson Auditorium
Thurs. Apr. 21st - Sanda Meek - Jepson Auditorium

Open mic starts at 7pm sharp and the poetry reading starts at 7:30pm
Open mic sessions are managed by the talented poetess, Vaughnette Goode-Walker.

email us at poetryknows@gmail.com with any questions, compliments or universal truths.

November Reading

2010-11-16T17:36:00.000-08:00

We hope you will come out this Thursday night (the 18th of November) to the Jepson Center for a poetry reading by our guest, Doris Davenport.

Davenport is a performance poet, writer, and Associate Professor of English at Albany State University. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia; Out of the Rough: Women's Poems of Survival and Celebration; Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers; and This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She has done more than 100 poetry performances and workshops and has taught at several colleges and universities, including Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Davenport received her B.A. in English from Paine College, her M.A. in English from SUNY-Buffalo, and her Ph.D. in African American literature from the University of Southern California. Born and raised in Gainesville and Cornelia, Georgia, in the foothills of Appalachia, she currently lives in Albany, Georgia.

At 7pm we are inviting local poets to take the stage in the auditorium for 20 minutes of open mic and grab the chance to read in an amazing building and connect and share with fellow writers and poets. Davenport's reading begins at 7:30pm, and thanks to The Booklady Bookstore, Davenport's books will be fore sale with a selection of previous poets' work after the reading.

We will also be selling our 'Poetry knows' canvas bags for $10.00 if you want to support the literary arts in Savannah and see the not-for-profit organization, The Poetry Society of Georgia, continue to offer you these services.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

121 Barnard Street Savannah GA 31401
please feel free to email us with any questions at poetryknows@gmail.com

2010-10-24T16:54:00.000-07:00

A great thanks to all who attended Gary Gildner's reading! What an evening of poetry! We hope it was enjoyed by all, and enough so to bring you back for our next reader. If you picked up a membership form be sure to fill it out and send it in. Keep up to date with our events on our blog at www.poetrknows.blogspot.com or email us at poetryknows@gmail.com

2010-10-07T17:01:00.000-07:00

Savannah, please welcome the
nationally recognized and
award winning poet...Gary Gildner

Gary Gildner is a nationally recognized poet and writer, whose books include Somewhere Geese are Flying, Blue Like the Heavens,The Second Bridge, and The Warsaw Sparks. He has received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes; Gary was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to both Poland and Czechoslovakia. Gildner lives in Idaho’s Clearwater Mountains.

Reading is on October 19th
Open mic session for all poets 7pm, come one come all. Reading begins at 7:30pm at the Telfair Academy, 121 Barnard Street. Admission is free, so come support The Poetry Society of Georgia and the literary arts in Savannah. Books and poetry paraphernalia will be available for sale at the reading.
Check our blog for updates and further info: www.poetryknows.blogspot.com or email us at poetryknows@gmail.com

2010-2011 Reading Series

2010-08-18T05:46:00.000-07:00

We are gearing up for our next season and excited about all the possibilities. We will keep you posted on confirmed dates and readers. We also invite you to check out the added pages to this blog that include more information about the society, its board members and the schedule of events for the next season. We look forward to seeing you all soon.

End of Season

2010-04-28T06:00:00.001-07:00

The Society would like to thank everyone who participated in our reading series this year. We had a fantastic time and really enjoyed meeting some new members as well as catching up with long standing ones. A special thanks to all the poets who came to read for us this season and were generous enough to share their work with Savannah. Kelly Whiddon's reading was a wonderful closing to a spectacular season of poetry.

Please keep our Cosmos Mariner contest in mind, $500.00 for the winner and the deadline is not until May 15th. See the older post here for details.

Another thanks to all our sponsors this season, the Grassroots Arts Program in conjunction with the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and administered by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs. GCA is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the arts. Without them none of this would have been possible.

A great summer to you all, members look for your yearbook in the mail in the Fall.
Sincerely,
The Poetry Society of Georgia

April Reading

2010-04-13T08:11:00.001-07:00

We are proud to invite you all to our last reader of the season, Kelly Whiddon, who will be reading for us on April 20th at the Telfair Academy (121 Barnard Street Savannah GA). Kelly completed her Ph.D. at Florida State University. Her interest include creative writing (poetry and fiction), twentieth century American literature, and women's studies.

We hope to see you all there to make our last reading the best so far.

Member's reception with the poet will begin at 6:30 and the reading will begin at 7pm. Admission is $10.00 - all profits support the Poetry Society of Georgia. Please contact us at poetryknows@gmail.com with any questions.

This poetry reading series is supported in part by the Grassroots Arts Program in conjunction with the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and administered by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs. GCA is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the arts.

photo credit: http://photos.grlucas.com

A great success

2010-03-25T07:04:00.000-07:00

What a turnout for our March reader, Waqas Khawaja! A great evening and reception afterward. Thanks to all who came to another reading, and a great thanks to all who came to their first! We hope it was enjoyed by everyone and that you will come to hear Kelly Whiddon on 04/20/10. Details to come...

Cosmos Mariner Award $500

2010-03-06T10:45:00.000-08:00

Now is the time to enter our Cosmos Mariner Award Poetry Contest!: $500 to the winner. Judge: David Kirby. 3-5 unpublished poems (10 pages max.), postmarked May 15. SASE and a $10 check payable to PSGA. Include contact information on cover sheet only. Indicate simultaneous submissions. Manuscripts will not returned. Send to Poetry Society of Georgia P.O. Box 15625 Savannah, GA 31416. There will be no electronic submissions. The winning poem will be published in our yearbook, an annual mailed out to all members, and posted on this blog site. Announcement date of winner to come.

March Reading!

2010-03-04T05:01:00.000-08:00

Join us on Tuesday March 9th at 7pm (6:30 meet and greet for members) for our poetry reading this month. Waqas Khawaja is an Associate Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. His most recent project is an anthology of poems translated into English from Pakistan's seven major languages. He was a practicing lawyer and newspaper columnist in Pakistan before relocating to the US in 1994.

The reading will be held at the Telfair Arts Museum, 121 Barnard street, Savannah GA. Admission is $10.00 - all profits support the Poetry Society of Georgia. Please contact us at poetryknows@gmail.com with any questions.

This poetry reading series is supported in part by the Grassroots Arts Program in conjunction with the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and administered by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs. GCA is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the arts.

An intimate reading

2010-01-31T06:40:00.000-08:00

Thanks to all who came to Chad Davidson's reading. Chad is so talented at making his audience feel like a part of the reading rather than "an audience". I thoroughly enjoyed it. For those of you who missed it we hope to see you at The Savannah book Festival and specifically at Dr. Nagueyalti Warren's reading, which we are sponsoring. There are many other great poets reading and you can get all the details at http://www.savannahbookfestival.org/

Here are some pics from Davidson's reading, enjoy!

2010-01-16T05:11:00.000-08:00

Mark our next reader on your new 2010 calendar! Chad Davidson will be reading at the Telfair Academy (121 Barnard Street) for us on January 19, 2010.
Chad Davidson is the author of The Last Predicta (2008) and Consolation Miracle (2003), winner of the Crab Orchard Prize in Poetry. Otherbooks include: Hockey Haiku: the Essential Collection, Space (chapbook), and Tourist Guide to the Forgotten City (chapbook). His poems have also appeared in several anthologies, including: From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (with audio CD); Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes; Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951-1977; and In a Fine Frenzy Rolling. He has work currently appearing in AGNI, Double Take, Hotel Amerika, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle. His new poetry textbook, Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches was published in 2009. He teaches at the University of West Georgia.

Member’s only reception with Chad at 6:30pm. Public reading begins at 7pm. Admission is $10.00 – all proceeds help the Poetry Society continue to serve you and the greater community of Savannah.

This poetry reading series is supported in part by the Grassroots Arts Program in conjunction with the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and administered by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs. GCA is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the arts..

PSGA Christmas party

2009-12-02T16:00:00.000-08:00

You are invited to our Christmas party!

It will be held on December 11th at 7pm at the Gordonston cottage. A secluded cottage on a wooded acreage with a roaring fire in the fireplace! Bring up to three of your own poems, or your favorites of others, to share with everyone! Refreshments and snacks will be provided but if you have a dish you'd like to share please feel free. So mark it on your calendar for an evening of good friends, good food and great poems.

The Gordonston cottage is located at the intersection of Edgewood Rd and Pierpont Ave just off Henry and Skidaway. Please email us with any questions - poetryknows@gmail.com and bring a friend!

Osing Reading

2009-11-25T08:20:00.001-08:00

Great thanks to all who attended Gordon Osing's reading. It was a wonderful evening and the poetry took us from our seats to far off places including India and China! The Society will not be hosting a reader for December because we will be hosting our annual Christmas party where we invite members to read their own work or some of their favorites. Details to come, but save the date of December 11th for that event. Our great gratitude once more for all your support and we look forward to seeing you in December.

Reminder

2009-11-15T03:34:00.000-08:00

Just a reminder to come to Gordon Osing's reading this Tuesday the 17th at the Telfair Academy. 6:30pm if you are a PSGA member and 7pm if you're not. We hope to see you there and hope you will spread the word and invite someone new!
cheers
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November's Poet

2009-11-03T07:15:00.000-08:00

Gordon Osing will be reading his poetry for us on November 17th. Gordon grew up in central Illinois and Western Missouri. He taught elementary school in suburban St. Louis and Indepencence, Missouri and High Schools in Chicago and Missouri for ten years before heading back to campus at the University of Arkansas, for an MFA in Poetry in 1973. Inspired by writers such as David Wagoner, Karl Shapiro, Nancy Willard, Gwendolyn Brooks, Howard Nemerov and Richard Wilbur, he discovered that poetry could be a way to keep private matters by making them inot poetic artifacts. A very successful poet both in publications and awards we hope you will join us for an evening of inspiring entertainment. Members only reception with Gordon at 6:30pm and the reading, open to members and non- members begins at 7pm. Admission is $10.00 and readings are held at the Telfair Academy at 121 Barnard St. Savannah GA. please contact us with any questions at poetryknows@gmail.com.

This poetry reading series is supported in part by the Grassroots Arts Program in conjunction with the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and administered by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs. GCA is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the arts.

Events are made possible in part by the following sponsors:

October Reading

2009-10-13T03:22:00.000-07:00

We hope to see all of you at our reading on October 20th at the Telfair Academy.

Angela Ball (10/20/09) - Ball’s thought-provoking poetry has brought her personal satisfaction as well as numerous awards and recognition by other poets. Ball was born on July 6, 1952, in Athens, Ohio, and went on to college to get her B. A. from Ohio University, her M. F. A. from The University of Iowa, and her Ph.D. from the University of Denver. Ball has published several works of poetry, including Recombinant Lives (1987), Vixie (1988), Kneeling Between Parked Cars (1990), Quartet (1995), and Possession (1995). Her poems have appeared in Grand Street, Partisan Review Poetry, the Mississippi Review, Mademoiselle, Kenyon Review and others. She is presently working on a long poem collage called The Museum of the Revolution. Reading begins at 7pm, any questions: poetryknows@gmail.com

This poetry reading series is supported in part by the Grassroots Arts Program in conjunction with the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and administered by the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs. GCA is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the arts.

2009-08-26T19:41:00.000-07:00

Exciting stuff is in the air this fall!!! New venues that reach back into our history, a special edition yearbook coming to all members soon and a fantastic line up of poets for the next reading series. The board members are giddy with all that is to come and hope you will join us with your support for an even better year this year. Stay tuned and keep in touch!

Visiting Alona

2009-06-14T06:57:00.000-07:00

Visiting Alona

In my freshman year at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, I had a professor of poetry who was one of those you never forget and inspires you in a way that has affected your life ever since. Her name was Alona Thaxton Shepard. She came from Georgia and was a true southern belle. I only had one class with her, but she became a good friend during some hard times of mine and everyone missed her when she moved back to Toccoa GA in my sophomore year. Then in my junior year I found out that she had commited suicide. She had a condition in which her pain receptors were twice as sensitive as they should be and she spent her life in a lot of pain. She had gone to a dentist in Georgia that had done a shoddy job and she couldn’t take it anymore. I never got to say goodbye to her, and I realized that I was also cut short of reading and knowing her poetry. So two years later when I moved to Savannah because my husband got a job at SCAD, I knew I would take the opportunity to visit her grave, read more of her work and share it with the poets here. So this is my trip to Toccoa with all it’s failures and successes and as it has turned out, a “to be continued” ending.

I left Savannah on May 30 early in the morning and headed out with my Google map to Athens. My plan was to stop at the UGA Library and copy Alona’s dissertation as she never published her poetry in any other venue. At 9:30 am I stopped for breakfast in the Huddle House in Harlem GA and made these notes: Things most often seen on the roadside: Churches, road kill and auto body repair shops.

So far I’ve learned that 65 miles an hour is too fast to stop and take pictures of the mist covered pond. It will be quite a hike back to the pond from where you finally stopped your car and the pond will be so mosquito ridden that the romance of the misty water will be lost.

I got into Athens, found my hotel, and went straight to the Library. I had the call number already, emaied to me by a friendly librarian so that I wouldn’t waste any time looking for her dissertation once I got there.

Her’s started with LXC and as far as I could determine the L section ended at LF and then there were lots of empty shelves, not a good sign. I asked the reference Librarian and she informed me that the dissertations were kept at on off campus site but could be ordered in a couple days. Informing her of my time limits she said there was another copy in a particular room on the third floor.

The gentleman there informed me that no, there were no extra copies there but he could order it for me and have there on Monday. I told him of my trip and its purpose, he felt badly for me and tried to compensate by expounding on other things they had that might be of interest. This list included a book bound in human skin.

Accepting defeat I decided to look around Athens and get lunch. I would order her thesis through interlibrary loan when I got home.

In honor of Sharjah, the city where I met Alona, I decided to eat at an Indian restaurant. I ordered a sweet lassie to drink, butter chicken, garlic Nan and rice. It was fantastic. My waiter was a timid Indian gentleman. The skin on his hands was like supple paper and he could see the disappointment in my face when I requested Gulab Jamun for desert and he had to inform me that they only had it on Fridays. I wondered if he misses India and I wondered what brought him to Athens of all places.

The next morning I got up early, did my Tai Chi and headed to Toccoa.

Once I was there I found Roselane cemetery quite easily. I was assuming that this was the “city cemetery” as noted in Alona’s obituary because it was the only one I could find on-line. It was not a large cemetery but there was no one at the office, so I decide to hike it and check every tombstone. After an hour or so in the full sun and the occasionally interesting grave markers of racecar drivers, I had to accept that if she was buried there it was an unmarked grave. I decided to go check into the hotel and drive through the town.

The thought of her grave not being marked stirred up disappointment in me, and then I thought of how silly that is, why should the presence of a large rock make any difference? Then I realized that my expectation of closure was tied into the size and grandeur of her tombstone, like somehow if she has a big elaborate one it would make me feel better than if it was one of those little plastic signs with the sliding letters. But that’s what we do with tombstones isn’t it? They are an attempt at immortality, and the larger and more complicated they are, the better we feel about the loss of the physical person, to the point where we build mausoleums or life size sculptures of the dead, when all this journey of closure actually needs is a stillness from the visitor. A moment of remembrance. Perhaps this is what my trip really was, me creating a space in my time to remember Alona.

I asked the gentleman with the round soft belly and the eyes of a doe at the hotel desk if there was another cemetery in town. “Yes,” he said “and Roselane cemetery is not the city cemetery.” He gave me directions to the Toccoa City Cemetery, but warned me that is was quite big and there was no office to ask for the specific location of a grave, in fact he used the old cliché of haystacks and needles. I found the cemetery. It had several entrances and I missed the first two but turned into the third. I seemed to have entered into the older part of the cemetery and figured she probably wasn’t buried there, so my plan was to just drive around the newer parts and see if I could find her. I drove over the first hill, looked to my left and there she was on the crest of a hill overlooking a small valley! I got out of the car and walked down to her. “Well, there you are,” I said “And here I am.”

I sat down and told her about the trip. I told her about my kids, I told her she was missed, I promised to get her poetry online. I videoed one minute of silence at her grave, and then I told her goodbye which I realized is why I had come.

I poked around Toccoa took some pictures of old buildings and then returned to my hotel room for a horrible pizza dinner and a hot bath in a very small tub. After the bath I watched TV and the movie The Da vinci Code came on, I’d seen it before but enjoyed it so I decided to watch it again. At one point in the movie a specific reference to a quote from the book of Job was made, realizing I was in a hotel, I opened the bedside drawer and took the bible out to check the quote. I noticed someone had written something in the back of the cover, it said “Mickey Spinks, Rockmart GA Timothy 7,8.” I looked this up and read “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing.”

I said my goodbyes and headed back to Savannah. I plan to get a copy of her thesis and post it to share with anyone who is interested. Stay tuned and thank you for taking the time to read this.

2009-05-28T05:44:00.000-07:00

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Member's reading

2009-05-20T17:16:00.000-07:00

PSGA hosted its last reading of the season yesterday. Several members came and shared their work with each other in the elegant and complimentary surroundings of the Books on Bay Bookstore (224 W Bay street) . How wonderful to be a part of this process. Thank you to everyone who came, what a great way to wrap up this series. Great photos Carol!

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2009-05-09T12:09:00.000-07:00

Our logo was designed by one of the five founding members, Laura Palmer Bell. In an article from 1963 in the Savannah Morning News, Bell is quoted as describing it as "a sailing ship of picturesque design with a sail blown out by the wind against a windy sky in which a crescent moon rides ...a pictorial reminder of John Masefield's 'Sea-Fever,' in which the British Poet Laureate expresses the emotions of all lovers of the water spaces of the world."

"Sea-Fever"

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

By John Masefield (1878-1967).
(English Poet Laureate, 1930-1967.)