Lines to Voice

Bits of fiction, sometimes in poetic form, mostly written for sharing in coffee shops and bars.Most of the poems in this volume were initially shared at open-mic readings in bar rooms and coffee shops. The bulk of the work was written specifically for performance purposes. A few poems were written with publication in mind, but even those usually ended up being revised into spoken-word pieces in the end. Although initially intended for performance many eventually found their way into the pages of various periodicals, chap books, and small-press anthologies. This book includes all of my previously published work as well as poems, microfictions, soliloquies, and vignettes that have appeared in Smashwords editions. These are the pieces that were written, read aloud, rewritten again and again. The proven crowd pleasers.