Reg Gibbons poem in Chicago Magazine

Those flaxen evangelicals, imbued with their holy ghost or some such helter-skelter mania, were surely not from Chicago, not of Sweet Home—bused in from Kansas, perchance?

Big Sex Little Death focuses most of its pages on Bright’s complicated and sometimes painful history.

Over the course of ten years, Kitchen has jotted notes about photos she found in her family’s scrapbook. She has now collected her writings into a cohesive work accompanied by approximately seventy images.