Rupert Wondolowski is the author of Mattress In An Alley, Raft Upon The Sea (Fell Swoop, New Orleans), The Origin of Paranoia As a Heated Mole Suit (Publishing Genius, Baltimore), The Whispering of Ice Cubes (Shattered Wig, Baltimore), Humans Go Outside to Hurt You, Shiny Pencils, The Incredible Sleeping Man, Cup Full of Head and Nightmare Rubber.
His work has appeared in the i.e. Series Reader, City Sages, Murdaland, Everyday Genius, Lamination Colony, Spout, Lost and Found Times, Rampike, Zeilensprung, Open 24 Hours, The Urbanite, Paper Radio, Driver's Side Airbag, Vice Versa and many more.
He is the editor of Shattered Wig Review, started in 1988, and publisher of Shattered Wig Press which has published more poetry chapbooks than you've had hot meals (to quote Blaster Al Ackerman, one of our main contributors) and recent perfect bound books The Elements by The Tinklers and Corn & Smoke by Blaster Al Ackerman.
To dilute his essence and fail on a grander scale he also has played in many bands over the years, including Magic Gurney Ride, Little Gruntpack, She Bites, Furniture Falling Down the Stairs, Kneeling On Beans, Groovy Like a Pig, The Lumpy Proles, Red Dogma and The Neighbors' Children.
He can be seen in the films/videos "60 Writers/60 Places", "Eel Leonard and the Haunted Icebox", "Kant's Gnawser" and "Extreme Unction".
He is co-owner of Normal's Books & Records in Baltimore, is currently at work on a novel and resides at The Patsy Cline Institute for the Emotionally Disabled.
My first sick baby (collecting a bunch of sicker near babies). Every one knows the eldest and first gets the most love. Just ask Everly "Golden Child" Brown.
Awesome. I think this one hit a lot harder than Paranoia in a Heated Mole Suit, but both were very cool. All sorts of different takes on weird, surrealist-ish poetry and prose.