I’m very proud to say that we had an amazing time at
MANIFEST on Saturday night. We had a great crowd and the poets all did the do.
I was a sweaty, sick, and happy man.
At the beginning of last week, I came down with a little
something (just a little virus). It wasn’t anything major, but it definitely
took my energy as well as my voice. I was really contemplating not doing any
poetry as a result and just sticking to music instead. However, about an hour
before I left to set up, I sounded enough like myself to do a few things.
I had a lot of options for my portion of the show, but
nothing planned. The Vacant Outlet Tour’s really inspired me as far as letting
things happen in the moment, so I chose that approach when I took the stage. I
brought my pedals, a few poems just in case, and went for it.
I made this really ambient piece (I’m just glad that all the
loops stacked up correctly) and decided on the fly to read a poem called
Confinement. It’s one of my most personal and is in my chapbook Ghosts &
Echoes. I’ve never really done anything like that before, so I definitely
surprised myself, which I immensely enjoyed.
The energy was phenomenal. I’m so thankful for how things
have developed creatively over the past few years as well as what I’ve been
able to bring to Chattanooga
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