one evening stand at the window and you will see your life both sinking and rising on the horizon before you there are many behind you there are many still who disappear into the thin line they have drawn for themselves worlds are created without and within they grow like leaves or words or the quiet hours whose roots reach deep and wide whose meaning may not be understood for generations to come one evening stand on the sky and dare to paint your world without a wooden frame then climb into the painting Antonia Alexandra Klimenko was first introduced on the BBC and to the literary world by the legendary Tambimuttu of Poetry London–-publisher of T.S. Eliot, Henry Miller and Bob Dylan, to name a few. After his death, it was his friend the late great Kathleen Raine who took an interest in her writing and encouraged her to publish. Although her manuscript was orphaned upon “Tambi” s passing, her poems and correspondence have been included in his Special Collections at Northwestern University. A former San Francisco Poetry Slam Champion and devotee of Spoken Word, she has read and performed at various venues including S.F.’s renowned Purple Onion and The Intersection for the Arts. Her sold-out one-woman show Where the Blue Begins was presented in conjunction with Sonoma’s performing art series Women on the Edge. More recently she was a featured poet with Helene Cardona and John High at Poets Live, presented her work at Shakespeare & Company, participated in five présentations hosted by Three Rooms Press as well as performed at 100 Thousand Poets for Change here in Paris. Klimenko’s works are widely published in journals and anthologies–among them: XXI Century World Literature (in which she represents France) The Poet”s Quest for God, CounterPunch, The Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology, The Rumpus, Writing for Peace, Big Bridge, Levure Litteraire, Iodine Poetry Journal, Literary Orphans, Danse Macabre Anthology,The Opiate, Strangers in Paris, Paris Lit Up, Vox Populi, Occupy Poetry (in which she is distinguished as an American Poet) and Maintenant: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art archived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C and in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She is the Writer/ Poet in Residence for SpokenWord Paris.
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Eileen Saint Lauren
2/10/2018 06:13:30 am
Antonia weaves together our thoughts—thoughts many of us cannot or dare not—say into her poetry. She taps into the recesses of our minds giving us a measure of relief yet leaving us wanting more.
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Antonia Alexandra Klimenko
2/11/2018 09:07:33 pm
Eileen ! Such a lovely comment and meaningful as well as any writer would devoutly wish to be able to express what the reader is thinking and or feeling! Thank you so much !
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Umor
10/12/2022 05:53:57 am
I really love this! Very deep, enchanting and atmospheric!
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10/12/2022 05:57:16 am
So very kind of you, Umor! Thanks so very much for reading it and for your generous compliment!
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