Sounds At Midnight and Other Poems

<p><em>The pen and the palette</em></p><p><em>Continually fight;</em></p><p><em>Says the pen to the palette</em></p><p><em>I know I'm write!</em></p><p><em>-Myna A. Russell</em></p><p><br></p><p>Myna Ayers Russell (1884-1975) was a twentieth century artist and poet with an incredible body of work. She came to west in 1920 and settled in Portland Oregon. Russell was a still life painter who worked in a variety of mediums. During her lifetime she produced at least four hundred paintings in a vibrant Impressionist style with subjects ranging from Arts and Crafts pottery to beautiful florals and other compositions that reflected her love of the outdoors. </p><p><br></p><p>While she was most widely-known in art world Russell also had a poetic legacy of more than three hundred poems. An exciting recent discovery uncovered a cache of poems compiled here for the first time in the collection <em>Sounds at Midnight and Other Poems</em>.</p>