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Reflections for the Renaissance
Laura Lonshein Ludwig
Poet, recipient of four New York State Council for the Arts Grants, listed in Whos Who in the World in 2004 for her work as a screenwriter, satirist, poet, actress, and director. Laura has performed on stages across the nation, on radio, TV, and in poetry venues. Regional editor for upstate New York for Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, previously the staff assistant for the New Press Literary Quarterly, and a producer with the Museum of Sound Recording. Laura's plays and poetry can be heard on shows created by Teachers and Writers Collaborative, WNYE, The Light Show (WBAI 99.5 FM), Earth Bird, Channel 57, MNN. Her poetry can be heard on the Joe Franklin's Memory Lane radio program at WOR AM, hosted by Joe Franklin and cohosted by Richard Ornstein, who is the cowriter of the newest screenplay Laura wrote, The Desk. Sounds like a Plot, Ms. Ludwig's last book, was reviewed by the comic Professor Irwin Corey. In these masters of the art, one finds the writer.
Reviews and Publications
Laura received outstanding reviews from Al Lewis (radio actor on WBAI's The Al Lewis Program with Karen Lewis), Frederick Geo Bold (The Light Show producer and host), Dr. Joseph S. Salemi (New York University professor, poet, translator, scholar, Department of Classics, Brooklyn College) for her first book Robo Sapiens. The reviews and others are included in this book, Reflections for the Renaissance. Her work can be found in the Mid-Manhattan Library, NYU Bobst Library, the Brooklyn Library, and published in over sixty literary publications. It is available through the Xlibris website and major outlets such as Barnes and Noble (via Xlibris by email and phone), St. Marks Bookshop, and City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco, California. Available worldwide; Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble bookstores can order it along with other books and chapbooks by Laura Ludwig.
About the Book
Reflections for the Renaissance is a poetry collection on the masters in literature, theatre, and the screen, emphasizing that art is life, and life can only be art by loving art itself. It explores the great writers, comics, producers, and artists who have inspired Ms. Ludwig to write and create. Included is The Man on the Street Is without a Prayer, a screenplay compared by Richard Ornstein to Duck Soup, the Marx Brothers' genius, and Ms. Ludwig's work to Mel Brooks. The collection also features short comic plays.
Background and Career
Ms. Ludwig studied acting at the Gene Frankel Theatre, attended Franconia College, and worked in sales and customer relations for twenty years. She aimed to produce educational television that promotes the arts, offering ballet, opera, theatre, poetry, plays, and films to showcase her screenplays and other artists' work for ten years. Brooklyn cable-access TV provided an opportunity to create television driven by concern and love for art, featuring rising artists and stars in film, radio, and TV. The American dream, for her, is to enjoy good literature and film, reaching for the fruits of labor in the ongoing renaissance of art. Reflections for the Renaissance honors the artists she has worked with and those who have inspired many in the New York poetry circuit, contributing to a new body of art for the twenty-first century.
