Tuesday 25 November 2014

The Crown Inn, Belfast, November 2014

The Crown Inn opened in 1826. I visited both nights I was in Belfast.









 The ceiling



My snug on the first night--all to myself!



Tuesday 18 November 2014

The Gwendolyn Brooks Illinois Poet Laureate Award, 1986


A local poet had given me the wrong rules for the Illinois Poet Laureate Award, but Brooks bent them for me....




As I was living in a home for pregnant girls when I received this telegram, sadly I didn't attend the ceremony.