Listen to Chris Whitey Erickson and Joe Wenderoth!

Chris “Whitey” Erickson is a writer who mixes fiction, performance poetry, and comedy. His work has appeared in various literary magazines as well as online publications, including pankmagazine.com, benmarcus.com, McSweeney’s, and The Hobo-Tramp Voice. He earned an MA in creative writing from UC Davis in 2009 and recently completed his first novel, entitled Henrytown. An educator and roustabout, Chris Erickson resides in Winters, California.

The poet and talk show host Dr. Andy Jones has said the following of Chris Erickson: “I really admire the work of that performer named Whitey. His performances are ribald, insightful, sentimental, surprising, and always entertaining. He is the opposite of a cliché. Unless Keith Lowell Jensen is in town, no comedian can provoke in a Davisite a greater eruption of uncontrollable risibility and joy than can Chris “Whitey” Erickson. Someone save me a front row seat!”

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Joe Wenderoth is an American Poet from Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently Professor of English in the graduate Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Davis.

Wenderoth’s work is widely anthologized, appearing in collections such as: “The Anchor Book Of New American Short Stories”; “Poetry 180″; “The Next American Essay”; “The Best American Prose Poems: From Poe To Present”; “The Body Electric”; “The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology”; “American Poetry: Next Generation”; “Best American Poetry”; “The Best American Essays 2008″.

In 2003, the One Yellow Rabbit theater company performed an adaptation of Wenderoth’s “Letters To Wendy’s.” The adaptation was done by Bruce McColloch (Kids in the Hall) and Blake Brooker, both of whom also starred in the production.

In 2007, Wenderoth performed in collaboration with Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) in Brooklyn at the Issue Project Room.