Better Things in April: a 5x5 Reading, Trans Day of Visibility performance, is that all? Yes, that's pretty much it.

But I also signed up for a kickball team. Because why wouldn't I?

You know that thing where you let the dishes pile up just a little bit and suddenly you have a Himalayan range of crusted ceramics threatening your life?

Well.

That’s what’s happened to my Writing News. Hah! So good-Lord-busy I haven’t had…haven’t made…the time to write much about the things here.

In a feeble attempt to expend the least possible amount of energy and time while spitting out the maximum amount of news, here goes A Mad Crashing of the Dishes:

Yes, that’s me up there, being all Host-y and stuff! My first big curatorial thing. I’ve been working with the ReEntry Lab & we’re putting on this event, the first of a series of Better Things, with these five fabulous writers, C. Fausto Cabrera, Chavonn Williams Shen, Junauda Petrus, LM Brimmer, and Sara Dovre Wudali. Five writers, five minutes each. (This format was originally pioneered by E. R. Tannen at Five Watt Coffee.)

The next day (the next day!) is the debut performance of This Body, This Fruit, as part of the Hennepin County Tr…