Patrick Whitfill
Patrick Whitfill’s poems and reviews appear or are forthcoming in the Threepenny Review, the Kenyon Review, Cherry Tree, West Branch, and other journals. Currently, he teaches at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Reading List
Run Night 87: Mauldin Cultural Center, Mauldin, SC
While Grimaldi was in the act of drawing out the pistol, the trigger by some accident caught in the loop of his boot, into which (the muzzle being downwards) its contents were immediately discharged. The boot itself puffed out to a great size, presenting a very laughter-moving appearance to everybody but the individual in it, […]
Run Night 5: Second Baptist Church, Lubbock, TX
From that night in November 1803, to this month of January 1838, [Grimaldi’s brother] was never seen again; nor was any intelligence, or any clue of the faintest or most remote description, ever obtained by his friends respecting him. —Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi Respect. As a man engaged with nothing short of humor for a […]