…I got to read in the Open Door Reading Series with my former Roosevelt University MFA student Jessica Anne, who read from her hybrid work A Manual for Nothing, forthcoming in 2017 from Noemi Press… 

…and Adam Clay from the University of Illinois–Springfield…

…and his student Bobby Bolt: 

I read new work from my manuscript The Listening Room about the Magrittes: Rene, Georgette, and their Pomeranian Loulou:

Thanks to the Poetry Foundation for having us, and to everyone…

…who came out to hear poetry, even when the Cubs were playing on a balmy night in mid-October.