On April 29, 2025, Bill participated with many other poets in 100 Days of Protest, an act of poetic resistance on Zoom. He closed his segment with a new poem called “The Details.”
On Saturday, September 29, 2018, Bill read a handful poems at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn as part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change.
On September 4, 2018, Bill read a selection from his many Tuesday Funk poems at Chicago's Tuesday Funk Reading Series.
So, after a week of my urging, you still haven't purchased a copy of my memoir, The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary. Hmm. No, don't apologize. I understand that a book about a depressed missionary intertwined with a biography of Joseph Smith doesn'
Today is 30 years to the day since a sentence was handed down in my trial on terrorism-related charges in Canada. If you're curious how things turned out, you have a few options: 1. Purchase a signed copy of my memoir for as little as $11.95 2.
The Electoral College convenes today in state capitols across the country to stamp its imprimatur on our recent, horrifying election. This antiquated, anti-democratic convocation was much on my mind two weeks ago when I returned to Chicago to appear at the 100th episode of Tuesday Funk, the long-running reading series
On December 6, Bill appeared at the 100th episode of Tuesday Funk to read an old, old story that many in the audience found disturbingly prescient...
On October 10, 2016, Bill delivered a taboo tale of Mormon missionary life at Taboo Tales NYC.
It was a magical moment. That's how Barry put it, and who am I to disagree? Barry Goldblatt is my friend and literary agent. He also happens to be literary agent to actor/ comedian/ author Michael Ian Black, with whom you may be familiar. This past November, Barry
Bill made a surprise appearance in Michael Ian Black's standup comedy special NOTED EXPERT, recorded in November 2015 and first aired in May 2016 on Epix.
Yes, the controversial music video defaces sacred LDS symbols, but in doing so it brings to visceral life the nightmare journey of the apostate.
It was twelve years ago today that I posted my first-ever blog entry about Ella. I hadn't met her yet. I was traveling on the West Coast. █████ was visiting her parents outside of Chicago. The neighbors asked if she would adopt their puppy. She said yes. History was
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