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Kevin Lane Dearinger
A collection of poems examining love, loss, age, nature, and change.
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Poems of age, time, love, loss, anger, joy, acceptance, frustration, family, nostalgia, memory, sex, sentimentality, cynicism, madness, mistakes, expiation, death, and reflection. Sounds and resonance. Images and old illusions.
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Clyde Fitch was a major figure in the American theatre, influential in his time and to the playwrights who followed. A collection of Fitch’s letters published in 1924 provided a…
Lexington’s theatrical history provides a template for what so many mid-American towns experienced.
This book documents the life and career of Marie Prescott (1850-93), an actress of great beauty and wit, who directed and starred in Oscar Wilde’s first play, Vera, or the…
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A reflection on one of Broadway’s most iconic flops, this memoir follows a musical that featured one of the silver screen’s most powerful personalities.
Despite the brevity of her career, Eleanor Robson stands as a prototype for many actresses who followed her--women who sought to control their own careers and lives, and demanded artistic…
Poems of Family, Fear, Loss, Love, and, yes, Cancer. Growing old alone. Grieving for what has been lost. Sorting out a future. Coping with cancer. And discovering that not everyone…
Pandemic poems of family, time, age, sex, love, and memory.
Three Short Plays for Stage Performance. On the Side: woman and man and small town culture; The Empty Room, two characters negotiating a shifting friendship; Happy Ending, a survivor of…
Poems of growing older, with pungent memories, still-surprising discoveries, old pains, familiar losses, frustrated love, and a resilient sense of humor. And always with a hope of connecting outside the…
A play in one act and four voices. Four monologues exploring Kentucky sounds in the heart and on the fringes of the LGBTQ community.
A play in two acts, ten scenes. A gruesome murder on the campus of a small Southern college in the 1950s, when language wore a set of tasteful pearls and…
What can a child make of a small-town culture in which love is a given, but intimacy is repeatedly deemed sinful ? What does a shy adult do when he…
