Dancing at Culture Cafe (Kattywompus Press, 2014)

Dancing at Culture Cafe is a series of prose poems populated by a quirky cast of regulars (and irregulars) connected by their loyalty to Rich, a counter-cultural coffee roaster at a cafe in a Midwestern small town.

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Grace Kelly of Manitowoc 

She's too cool for [high] school, this Grace. Opting instead to hold court at a four-top where she spoons steel cut oatmeal into her perfectly made up mouth. She's all leggings and dewy cheeks. When she closes her paperback (she must be reading about the origins of her oats), everyone/thing will inhale while she bats her leg-length lashes. You've never seen her make contact with a vehicle, but she'll flit across the county and beyond, making a series of Spirograph stars with her travels from point A to point B to see-my-snakeskin-skinny-jeans. Somewhere between here and Hilbert--voila!--she appears with empty Kombucha jar. 

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