Welcome to my storehouse of photos and information about my activities over the years.
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No, I wasn't a desperado while young, but I did dress for parts in small plays.
Guild Books might have been Chicago's greatest independent bookstores. I did several readings there back in the eighties and participated in other literary activities hosted by the store.
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Howard Edwards and I were both part of the Bluesville Writers Collective while undergraduates at UIC. We were recruited to pose for this ad that ran in campus publications and we both agreed.
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Back during my undergrad days, Frank Williams, Bob Henry, and I went into together to purchase individual season ticket packages from the Chicago Bulls. This was before Michael Jordan arrived on the scene and I kept mine for eighteen years, including
If you see me today you probably won't think of me as someone who used to be a professor. But I was, a full professor. Here I am after hooding two of my most successful students, the bestselling author Wiley Cash and the enormously talented author Pa
Been a good friend of Sandra Cisneros since our days as young poets in Chicago back in the early eighties. Here we are while on a special HOUSE ON MANGO float during the 2019 King William Parade in San Antonio.
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Giving a reading at the Festival of Words in Grand Coteau, Louisiana in 2015.
I'm old enough to have starting writing on manual and electric typewriters. Here I am in the apartment I grew up in and later rented while in college looking over a draft of a poem.
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Lunch in Boulder with my daughter, Sydney Regina.