Read by: Stuart Dybek, Peter Case, George Singleton
Language: English
Length: 2 hours and 30 minutes
Publisher: Verb Productions, LLC
Release date: 2006-01-01
Two Poems by Chris Forhan, the Samuel French Morse poetry Prize winner.
"Bomblight Prayer Vigil" by Peter Case
A six-part cycle of "spoken songs" from Americana and blues-rock great Peter Case. He calls this his own "form of jazz".
"Blight" by Stuart Dybek
Ruin, unrequited love, and winos are on display as Ziggy, Pepper, Deejo, and David take a walking tour through their Chicago as the White Sox win the 1959 pennant.
Two Poems by Elise Paschen, the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize Award Winner.
"Shirts and Skins" by George Singleton
Flannery O'Connor once said that the reason Southern writers wrote about freaks is because they could still recognize them. To make it easier for the rest of us, George Singleton groups them all onto one church league basketball team.
Four Poems by Kurt Brown from Sincerest Flatteries: A Little Book of Imitations.
All pieces are read or performed by their respective authors and artists.