Wim Coleman
@wimcoleman.bsky.social
Playwright, poet, novelist, nonfiction writer. I do much of my writing in collaboration with my wife, Pat Perrin. Here's our blog: https://playsonideas.com/
Happy Birthday, Lady Ada Lovelace …
“Your best and wisest refuge from all troubles is in your science.”
“Your best and wisest refuge from all troubles is in your science.”
December 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Happy Birthday, Lady Ada Lovelace …
“Your best and wisest refuge from all troubles is in your science.”
“Your best and wisest refuge from all troubles is in your science.”
I looked this up to make sure it's real. Someone really did put up this plaque on Constitution Corner at West Point. This is worse than vandalism. It is sedition and punishable by death.
(Irony alert, for those who need it.)
(Irony alert, for those who need it.)
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I looked this up to make sure it's real. Someone really did put up this plaque on Constitution Corner at West Point. This is worse than vandalism. It is sedition and punishable by death.
(Irony alert, for those who need it.)
(Irony alert, for those who need it.)
More AI musings on my play "The Mad Scene" …
August 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
More AI musings on my play "The Mad Scene" …
Happy Birthday to Mary Wollstonecraft …
"Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
"Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
April 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy Birthday to Mary Wollstonecraft …
"Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
"Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
Pat's piece "Life Forms, Eventually to Wonder," on display in the Down to Earth exhibit at the Artcenter in Carrboro …
April 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Pat's piece "Life Forms, Eventually to Wonder," on display in the Down to Earth exhibit at the Artcenter in Carrboro …
Issue #14 of our FREE monthly newsletter MUTANT FOXES is our LAST issue! (playsonideas.com/.../2025/04/...)
It concerns many of our books that are about to be removed from schools and libraries.
It concerns many of our books that are about to be removed from schools and libraries.
April 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Issue #14 of our FREE monthly newsletter MUTANT FOXES is our LAST issue! (playsonideas.com/.../2025/04/...)
It concerns many of our books that are about to be removed from schools and libraries.
It concerns many of our books that are about to be removed from schools and libraries.
Happy Birthday, W. H. Auden …
"May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."
poets.org/poem/septemb...
"May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."
poets.org/poem/septemb...
February 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Birthday, W. H. Auden …
"May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."
poets.org/poem/septemb...
"May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame."
poets.org/poem/septemb...
You can download my all-too-timely full-length play "The Mad Scene," aptly described as "an 'Our Town' about the French Reign of Terror," right here: playsonideas.com/wp-content/u...
January 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You can download my all-too-timely full-length play "The Mad Scene," aptly described as "an 'Our Town' about the French Reign of Terror," right here: playsonideas.com/wp-content/u...
Thanks to the judges of this year's Stephen Mitchell Prize for giving my translation of Calderón de la Barca's verse drama "Life Is a Dream" an honorable mention! Here's a link to download the complete translation: playsonideas.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
January 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thanks to the judges of this year's Stephen Mitchell Prize for giving my translation of Calderón de la Barca's verse drama "Life Is a Dream" an honorable mention! Here's a link to download the complete translation: playsonideas.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...