In Laurence Carr's Vaudeville, it's 1919, and nine seasoned show folks are stuck in Philadelphia. While their current world is the small time circuit of split weeks, they keep their hopes alive for the 'Big Time'. Cohen and Cobb, Mack Maxwell and Maxie, Mlle. Yvette ("Vaudeville's Sweetheart"), Jackson Washington -- they're a cross-section of the last generation of hoofers, comics and "novelty acts" who kept America entertained while Vaudeville was king. Successfully stages in theaters around the Unite States, Carr's Vaudeville has won acclaim from audiences and critics alike.

Vaudeville: A Play with Music

Laurence Carr

Rising Moon Publishing

“In The Wytheport Tales, Laurence Carr observes ‘Time is warping in the palace.’ And our nights and days are warping in these sly, canny (or are they uncanny?) poems. Most interested in the world when that world is changing, and by turns in-flected, de-fleeted, and re-flected, here fanciful, there matter of fact, Carr’s tales summon twilight presences from the edges of experience, dark, restless, playful, and urgent.” –Robert Polito, Director, New School Writing Program“Though it seems to begin in the land of Dylan Thomas’s Nightwood, it extends beyond that into wonderfully evocative, mythic words that strike me as utterly original in its language and pace.” –Robert H. Waugh, The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H. P. Lovecraft“With The Wytheport Tales, Laurence Carr gives us a work that shimmers and twists, that undulates across the mind’s eye like a tapestry. At times homely, at others baroque, at still others nightmarish, the collection fits multitudes between its covers. I’m grateful to have been introduced to a sampling of Wytheport’s denizens, and look forwards to many return visits.” –John Langan, Mr. GauntSometimes angst-ridden, sometimes whimsical, sometimes meditative, these short “biographs” depict the life and times of a unique place and its haunting residents. The Wytheport Tales draws inspiration from a range of authors: Dante, Carroll, Joyce, Eliot and Masters, as well as fantasists such as Cabell, Eddison and MacDonald.Laurence Carr’s poetry and microfictions have been performed and published throughout the U.S. Over twenty-five of his plays and theatre pieces, including Vaudeville, Kennedy at Colonus, The Voyage of Mary C. and 36 Exposures have been produced Off and Off-Off Broadway, regionally and throughout Europe. Carr teaches creative and dramatic writing in the Creative Writing Program at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz and directs the SUNY Playwrights Project.

The Wytheport Tales (Codhill Press)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Codhill Press

Both an anthology and an informal textbook that features poetry and essays by twenty-five New York State poets. Reflecting Pool is an innovative volume of poetry and essays by twenty-five New York State poets who teach the writing of poetry, run poetry workshops, and publish the poetry of others. The book is both a poetry anthology and an informal textbook, with contributing essays by each poet that offers the reader personal insights and opinions about how poetry is created, crafted, and presented. Included are a wide array of prompts and exercises that these mentors use in their classes and workshops to stimulate the creative process in poets of all ages. Also added are basic ideas about how poets can best present their work in public readings. The book can be used as the focus for symposiums on teaching the writing of poetry as well as a textbook for high school and college students, adult and senior writers, and for those who run poetry workshops or reading series.

Reflecting Pool: Poets and the Creative Process (Codhill Press)

State University of New York Press

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Vaudeville: A Play with Music

The Wytheport Tales (Codhill Press)

Reflecting Pool: Poets and the Creative Process (Codhill Press)