Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: That sinking feeling about cattle panels and theoretical beef‘ can be seen online here.

Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: The calendar’s sweet spot hits right between extremes‘ can be seen online here.

In what I would describe as one of those gratitude/bummer intersections, my email and post office mailbox fills up weekly with manuscripts, CDs, advance copies, and requests for me to review, blurb, or discuss more smart, powerful writing and heartfelt art than I could lay my eyes on if it was my full-time job, and…View post

Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: We’ve come a long way treating depression, but that black dog still hunts‘ can be seen online here.

Howdy folks: It’s been a long year and the squirrely-ness has settled in. When not Zooming into your living room via various livestream events, Mike has been hunkered down and churning the creative loam (sounds like a fancy way of saying, “Dad I got the tractor stuck”). There are four books in the works and a…View post