Brett Lars Underwood is a bartender and a gadabout who writes, promotes and produces happenings and mishaps in St. Louis. Once upon a time, he co-published a 'zine en- titled Lick My Squaggle Noose, Clam Tick. He penned Zen koans for the Riverfront Times and St. Louis Magazine as well as Curator. He has performed in back rooms, backyards, ball rooms, barrooms, basements, coffee houses, courtyards, galleries, museums, rock venues and taverns. His verse and riddles have been published by the Bicycle Review, 52nd City, The Subterranean, Bad Shoe and included in Flood Stage: An Anthology of Saint Louis Poets and The Gasconade Review presents 39 Feet And Rising. He unleashed Sunlit Insult, his first chapbook, in 2011 and Its Bush Lent Subtle Hints in October, 2013. He can be reached at brettlarsunderwood@gmail.com