On Wednesday, Feb 25th at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, I’ll be shooting the breeze with Michael Whistler, playwright of “Mickle Street”, a play currently running at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia about the meeting between Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde during his famous American tour. 6PM. Program is free with museum admission.
Last night, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philly hosted a wake for my thirteen year-old pen name, Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy. My friends Ben Warfield, David Kessler, Laura Baird, and Jesse Sparhawk contributed music and animated projections of fantastical terrariums. Over 600 people attended, many of them dressed as various creatures. After giving three readings throughout the evening, I reclined on the funereal plinth by the front door, gave a short reading of a selection from my old book, and then received the commiserations of mourners as they left. Happy to say that the morticians did a nice job on me. (Photo: Addie Métivier)