Acknowledgement
I thank the poets whose poems have inspired these collaborations and those for whom my work was inspirational:
Stanley H. Barkan, Laura Boss, Lidia Chiarelli, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Mary Gorgy, Peter Thabit Jones, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, Nabil Naoum, Marsha Solomon
I also thank Aeronwy Thomas the first poet with whom I collaborated, Immagine&Poesia the international art/literary movement in Torino, Italy, and its president, Lidia Chiarelli, who sparked these collaborations, and Stanley H. Barkan the publisher of Cross-Cultural Communications, who published these collaborations as the Art & Poetry Series of broadsides.
For all you, my dear friends, I am ever grateful.