Mike Pulley's Writers' Harvest

At a time when many lower-income Americans are feeling the pinch, Mike Pulley's Writers' Harvest returns to Clemson University on Thursday, November 21 at 7 p.m. This will be my third year reading at this canned-goods benefit for hungry children in the Upstate, and it feels like our percentage of food-insecure citizens is on the rise. Or maybe it just always feels this way as the cold season approaches. . . I knew a bit about holiday poverty as a child although I have no recollection of ever feeling hungry or "poor" in any permanent sense of the word.

canon rap for loaves and fishes

"And the Canon Rap Got Played" looks to be the story I'm reading a section of at Clemson University's Writers' Harvest on Wednesday, November 14 at 7 p.m.

It should be a weird time.

fish loaf

On Tuesday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m., I'm reading for ten minutes with seven others in the Self Auditorium at the Strom Thurmond Institute on Clemson's campus in South Carolina. It's a benefit for Loaves and Fishes, a "food raiser" as it were, where folks can bring canned goods and suffer through poetry and fiction. (Cash donations are also accepted, but don't expect me to shut up for just any amount of dough!) For more information, visit the Loaves and Fishes website or contact Mike Pulley in the Clemson University Department of English.

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