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 Lakewood Public Library, seven member libraries of the Cuyahoga County Public Library system and the Cleveland Public Library’s Main branch In 1855, a poetry collection appeared by an unknown 36-year-old poet, until then known primarily as...
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
From Garretsville to Brooklyn and Beyond Originally presented at Lakewood Public Library The life of Hart Crane was tragically short, but his impact on the world of poetry was large and the list of those he has influenced is long. Tim Tavcar, the artistic director of...
