Bad Grammar Theater, February 2017

Hosted by Brendan Detzner and stories read by the usual suspects. Alexei Collier, Harold Holt, Angelica Julia Davila, Michael Penkas, Maggie Wagner, and Rhiannon Hardy.

SURPRISE GUESTS AT BAD GRAMMAR THEATER'S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY!

The ever beautiful Noemi Perez and the gruff but likeable Eli Diaz showed up to hear me get up to the podium and read the current installment of TIME CLOWN. I worked with Noemi and Eli on a film by the versatile yet huggable Will Adams, STEP OFF THE BLOCK. It was because of this film that we all started getting work on the Dick Wolf shows filming here. CHICAGO FIRE, CHICAGO MED, CHICAGO PD, and the newest, CHICAGO JUSTICE. Here are the photos. Noemi and Eli sat in the back row, worried that the crowd closer to me would throw rotten fruit when I read.

04 OCT 14: GUMBO FICTION SALON

Here I am reading at the Galway Arms, on Clark north of Fullerton, last month on a wonderfully rainy Thursday night. I read from I CAN'T COME CLEAN, my poetry collection, including portions of DESMOND'S INFERNO, a long poem I wrote in 1983 and never bothered to get published. Honestly. Also in attendance, Brendan Detzner, Michael Penkas, Alexei Collier, Kate Starling, and Tina Jens, the host. The photos of me (including the close-up) were taken by Eric Cherry.)