Muffin Man
Laurence Overmire is an actor, poet, playwright, director, arts educator and genealogist.
Read More...
And Now For a Little Angst…
I was an incurable space cadet, never willing to be bound in any way. Freedom was the most important quality of life for me. Now, I’m watching my peers retire in comfort from their secure jobs, with secure pensions, and I’m feeling a little green around the gills.
2 CommentsRead More...
Believe it or Not!
Yogi Berra once said, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it,” seems to sum up the situation for the state’s transportation funding.
Read More...
“See her while you can, she’s disappearing fast.”
“Hey I know you. You’re the poster lady”!
Read More...
Dead to Me
If they left it a muddy pit as a statement to the savagery that had taken place that would be honest enough, but now they scheme to install a freedom park , some kind of sterile municipal placeholder, a tombstone as testament to what has been lost.
1 CommentRead More...
Sludge 101 – Following The Flush
The sludge industry, that is paid to haul sludge from wastewater treatment plants, has sponsored many name-games
in a marketing effort to promote the reuse of sludge and make it more socially acceptable.
Read More...
What Wright Got Right
However the high visibility of African-Americans in American politics, society and culture has arguably lulled us into a false sense that we have resolved our problems with race and that we have finally achieved a society in which everyone is born with equal opportunities
Read More...
Marketing and Research
Laurence Overmire is an actor, poet, playwright, director, arts educator and genealogist. He has appeared on stage and screen in New York and Hollywood and points in between. His poetry has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad in hundreds of journals, magazines and anthologies, including The American Muse, Over the Back Fence, 12 Gauge Review, Aabye’s Baby, m. e. stubbs poetry journal, Kimera, Adirondack Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly Online, Thorny Locust, The Penwood Review, and Lynx Eye. His book Honor and Remembrance, A Poetic Journey Through American History is available from Indelible Mark Publishing.
Read More...
Disguises, Oops I Mean Decision 2008
Tom Reed has graced these pages with poetry in the past. Here he weighs in with some Presidential humor.
1 CommentRead More...