Tarred and Feathered: An Urban Fable
Darkness forced them away from the tasty soil and back to their elm tree for sleep. The sparrows felt fat and lazy. Just flying up to their branches took quite an effort. This frightened them.
Mark Blickley
Mark Blickley is a widely published and produced writer and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and PEN American Center as well as the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Scholarship Award for Drama. He is the author of Sacred Misfits (Red Hen Press), Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes from the Underground (Moira Books) and the forthcoming text-based art chapbook, Dream Streams (Clare Songbirds Publishing). His art video, Speaking in Bootongue, was selected to the London Experimental Film Festival. He is a 2018 Audie Award Finalist for his contribution to the audiobook, Nevertheless We Persisted. His new theatrical work, Uno Momento, opens May 4, 2018 at NYC’s 13th Street Repertory Theater.