Lorene Cary·Aug 27, 2025NeceſsityIt looks like an f, but in 18th century writing, without the crossbar, it’s a long s, which they thought neceſsary. Like mass murder on the…A response icon1A response icon1
Lorene Cary·Jun 30, 2025It’s a Summer Jawn!Real Talk Made Fresh by a New Cohort of Youth-Vote Arts Advocates
Lorene Cary·Feb 2, 2025QueenKaren Slack, soprano, has been nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Classical Solo vocal album for Beyond the Years —…
Lorene Cary·Jan 28, 2025Four YearsMy husband, the Rev. Robert Clarke Smith, died four years ago today. All month I kept slipping up on the date. Checked the death…
Lorene Cary·Dec 5, 2024The Last Assignment PageIn college Fall-Term life, this early December feels like the End Times. “Writing and Politics” at UPenn, cross-listed between Africana…
Lorene Cary·Nov 13, 2024Letting 18-year-olds Drive Us to the Future: Confessions of Old, Some of Us, Like, Seriously Old.Very few 18-year-olds can afford to buy their own cars. But they can drive. Adult judgment is kicking in, they have the reflexes of Wonder…
Lorene Cary·Mar 18, 2024The End of the RunOne week ago my play, Ladysitting, closed at Arden Theatre in Philadelphia. I was in Mexico with family on a trip we planned almost a year…
Lorene Cary·Feb 22, 2023Playing with a Broken ToyWhen Brent White read Daniel Beaty’s Knock, Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me to his children, something happened. A tune White had written…
Lorene Cary·Sep 23, 2022One Book One Norristown, 9/24Saturday, 24 September 2022, launches One Book One Norristown featuring The Price of a Child. Thanks and praise for Director Monica…
