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Rikki
 
That's my real name... Being an artistic centipede this site will be like a personal museum in which I love to welcome you...
Ever since I was a child I have been writing poetry & prose. After living and taking artclasses in Los Angeles, New York and Luxembourg I returned to the Netherlands and found my way on the literary scene... My poems are written in Dutch, English, French and German.
I published 13 poetry-albums & a book, performed on stage & organized/presented fantastic literary events. In 1999 I started a fulltime study of Dutch Linguistics, Literature & Culture at Leiden University (graduated in 2003).
Besides... I am mother of a daughter (30) and grandmother of lovely babytwins...

At this time...
 
Recently I discovered the internet and published English, French and Dutch poetry on diffe-rent sites (see: favorite links). In the meantime I am writing more poems and two books.
My 14th poetry-album will be published in a month or two. It is titled: Quaternair...

Here I might add an entry whenever I make an update to my web site. Where appropriate, I'll include a link to the change.
 
October 19th, 2005. I added an extra page to this site: 'more poetry'.
Three new poems have been published there today.
You can find them here: more poetry...
 
October 20th, 2005. Today I created a second site: Drs. Rikki: lyrical, literary
& philosophical essays & more...
 
October 25th, 2005. A third site - especially for poetry - has been created.
You can find it here: https://najade1893.tripod.com/poetry   
 
January 18th, 2006. In the links-section I added the urls to two great sites for publishing...
Writer's Playground and Ezboard... Do check them out!
 
February 2th, 2006. My friend Warren Zeblon Gill has published his poetrybook Radiant Lightning...
Go check it out and buy it!!! Warren - alias Zeb - is a great poet and I can vouch for the quality of his work! Just follow this link: http://www.lulu.com/content/223090
If you'd like to surf to Zeb's own sites, please click the links below: 
 

March 9th, 2006
Today I added several new poems in English to the site:
Take a look under the tab 'poetry english'...
 
March 31th, 2006
Today I created a special page for my Friend Zeb at:
You'll find his bio and a sample of his wonderful poems under ZEB...
And his picture, of course...
I also added a page for Anthay, our poet-friend!
 

Please get in touch with any comments or reactions to my site...
Under Contact Me you'll find my e-mailaddresses  
Under Favorite Links you'll find my guestbook
and my tripodsites for more poetry, essays and art...

Writer's Playground... A bright & brilliant site to check out right away!

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