About the Author

Robbie Q. Telfer is a touring performance poet featured in hundreds of venues across North America, Germany, and Slovenia. His work appears in the American Book Review, Octopus Magazine, decomP magazinE, and several spoken word anthologies and DVDs. He also co-wrote the video games Ninjatown DS and Space Miner: Space Ore Bust. Robbie curates the Encyclopedia Show; serves as the Director of Performing Arts for Young Chicago Authors, a not-for-profit whose work has been featured in two documentaries from HBO and Siskel Jacobs Productions; and is the poetry correspondent for TimeOut Chicago.

Reviews

In Spiking the Sucker Punch, Robbie Q. Telfer rocks out a bestiary of antic
poetics all his own. In his open and generous hands, speech acts zoom in and
out of our collective desire to live and love. You will feel alive again reading it. -Daniel Nester, "How to Be Inappropriate"

Robbie Q, our dazzling shooting star sparking the gritty Chicago heavens, crackling with the surprising and contradictory rhythms of life on the run and in
the heat. Keep on, Brother Q, dance the dialectic, your wild inspired unruly convergence
and conspiracy. -Bill Ayers, activist/educator/author

This gloriously bellowed lyrical and linguistic chaos, this 'mess of crossed wires and mixed seagulls, ' will make your status quo ache, your perceptions implode,
your horizons widen and shatter. -Patricia Smith, "Blood Dazzler"