by Ken Schworm | Feb 5, 2018
Originally presented at the Wright Chapel at the Lakewood Presbyterian Church “Thy breath be rude,” William Shakespeare famously told winter in “As You Like It,” invoking a common complaint about the season: winter is cold, windy, bleak, awful. Five centuries later,...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 5, 2018
Poems of Murder and Mayhem Originally presented at the Lakewood Public Library Main Auditorium The human race seems to be hypnotically fascinated by the deadly art of Murder. As witness by the number of books, films, television programs, and the news media’s unending...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 5, 2018
Originally presented at the Wright Chapel at the Lakewood Presbyterian Church The ghoulish meanderings of the macabre mind of Edward Gorey—a pre-Halloween revel in the madcap, macabre world of an American original. Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000) gave to the world...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 4, 2018
Originally presented at The Heights Library, in Cleveland Heights, OH Celebrate America’s Game in song and literature as we present ruminations on the game of baseball by such diverse poetic voices as Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 2, 2018
Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries Originally presented at the Cleveland Public Theatre Developed from love letters written by prominent men throughout history from Marcus Aurelius to Allen Ginsberg, My Dear Boy expresses universal themes of human emotion and...
