by Ken Schworm | Feb 2, 2018
L’Affaire Verlaine – Rimbaud Originally presented at the T.W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center – Montpelier, VT Paul Verlaine was born ten years earlier than Rimbaud, in 1844. The spoiled, only child of an army officer, Verlaine displayed early talent as...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 2, 2018
The Enigma of Emily Dickenson Originally presented at the Lakewood and Hudson Public Libraries The first word of the first poem she ever wrote was “awake.” Almost two centuries later, Emily Dickinson is still jolting us into consciousness. The legendary recluse in...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 2, 2018
The Life and Work or Langston Hughes“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”James Mercer Langston Hughes, the African-American poet, playwright, novelist and voice of the Harlem...
by Ken Schworm | Feb 19, 2017
As poet, artist and publisher, d.a. levy was an important literary and underground figure in Cleveland’s emerging poetry and small/alternative press scene in the early 1960s and continued to be until his untimely death in 1968. levy documented his love-hate...
