Now available A new poetry and art book through Lightwood
Strides: reflections on 6 acres
Poems and short essays by Laurence Carr with artwork by Edward M. O’Hara published by CAPS Press and Lightwoodpress. (62 pages). Order through Lightwood: $15.00 plus $5.00 s/h (with added shipping costs if sent outside the U.S.). Contact Laurence Carr through Lightwood on our contact link or through www.carrwriter.com). Payment can also be made through PayPal and Zelle.
Strides: reflections on 6 acres takes the reader and viewer on meditative walks through a small plot of New York’s Hudson Valley where author Laurence Carr lives. With an eye to detail, these short personal essays and poems explore our relationship with the topography, vegetation, and animal life, along with the stone walls and structures often overlooked. Sometimes mystical, and sometimes whimsical, these pieces bring the spirit of the natural world to the reader.
In collaboration with artist Edward M. O’Hara who has added twenty vivid black and white images based on his own nature walks, Strides creates a collaboration of word and image that connects reader and viewer to the world around us and to ourselves.
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Laurence Carr, a Hudson Valley writer of poetry, fiction and plays and the publisher of Lightwood magazine (Lightwoodpress.com). Books include Pancake Hollow Primer (Next Generation Indie Book Award). With Codhill Press, he edited 4 anthologies: Riverine and A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley (USA Best Book Award for Anthology; co-edited with Jan Zlotnik Schmidt). Poetry collections: Paradise Loft (CAPS Press/Lightwoodpress), The Wytheport Tales and Threnodies: poems in remembrance (Codhill Press). With artist Power Boothe: Traverse, a book of artwork and text. His writing has appeared in numerous publications. A graduate of Ohio University and New York University and taught Dramatic and Creative Writing at SUNY, New Paltz. www.carrwriter.com
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Edward M. O’Hara is a New York City born artist who creates his art in theHudson Valley. O’Hara studied art at QueensCollege (1979-1981) and the Art Students League (2019). He’s shown at ArtSpace-New Haven, Roost Arts-New Paltz, and solo show at Wired Gallery–High Falls (2024). www.oharaart.com @edohara.art
Upcoming Exhibitions:
The Artwork of Edward O’Hara; ‘Echoes of Grass’ Garner Arts Center (Solo show, Ned Harris Gallery) 55 W. Railroad Ave.; Garnerville NY 10923; May 3 – June 15 2025
The Artwork of Edward O’Hara; ‘Echoes of Grass 2’; Lagstein Gallery (Solo show) 85 S. Broadway; Nyack, NY 10960; August 10 – September 7 2025
9W Artists: Group Show (Title TBD); Wired Gallery; 11 Mohonk Rd.; High Falls, NY; September 2025
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