Still working out the details, but as a preliminary salvo: I'll be doing a feature of new poetry every Saturday in December: 4th, 11th, 18th and the 25th. They'll be smaller, intimate affairs, and I'll have a team-up each week.

Happy birthday, Sweet Baby Jesus! Put down that myrrh and have some poetry!

Upcoming featured readings within the next couple of weeks:

TONIGHT 6/21 - CLEVELAND, OHIO
@ The Karamu House
2355 E. 89th St.
Cleveland OH 44106
7:30
$10 in advance, $15 at the door

TUESDAY 6/23 - COLUMBUS, OHIO
@ Writing Wrongs Poetry Night
893 E. Long St. (East of the Lincoln Theater)
Columbus, Ohio
8:00
$5 at door

MONDAY 7/6 - DETROIT, MICHIGAN ( Read more... )

This is the sickest National Poetry Month line-up of events ever.

Additions in red:

Wednesday, November 5 - Feature @ Spitfire @ MSU, Lansing, MI
Monday, November 10 - Feature for Cap City Poets Anthology @ Worthington Inn Pub, Columbus, OH, 7:00
Thursday, November 20 - Feature @ Zanzibar, Columbus, OH 9:00
Friday, November 21 - Feature @ Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC, NY
Friday, December 19 - All new poem feature @ ( Read more... )

You always hear that "anything could happen at the Green Mill". Last night more or less proved it. If I never see Marc Smith's naked body on stage again it will be too soon. I did rub his belly for good luck, though. In the open mic I read "Republican Poets". In the slam I read "Why Your House Was Shaking Last Night" and "Whuppins". I won the ( Read more... )

I'm very excited about tomorrow night's iWPS slam at Writers' Block.  I'm writing new pieces right now for it, 1-minute and three-minutes in length, and my goal is to perofrm them like its old hat.  Usually I need time off from NPS before I can dive back in to the grind.  This year?  I was writing lines down during bouts.  I'm not playing this ( Read more... )

Okay, here's an updated list of primary gigs (also on my website ( Read more... )