It began as a a New Year’s resolution: “Do something each day that takes you out of your comfort zone.” Interacting with people living on the streets was at the top of that list. Like many of us who reside in proper homes, I preferred to look away. But for more than a year, I listened to homeless...
MARCH 25, 2016; 7PM: MK Punky reads “Report from the Street” at Have Seeds Threefold House
Anyone who lives in or visits Los Angeles can see we have a humanitarian crisis on our hands. More than 60,000 people are without homes, and…
Imagine the unimaginable. Imagine this ludicrous scenario: Imagine if someone showed up at your front door and told you in the coming years he intended on using the yards in your neighborhood as his new toilet facility. Because he likes the location. This stranger, dressed in a bespoke suit and grinning cordially, doesn’t ask permission...
MK Punky inaugurates the Shockwire Series of social-justice books with “Report from the Street: Voices of the Homeless” at Soup Kitchen Cafe, in Philadelphia.
MK reads “Report from the Street” at Drexel University’s Writer’s Room.
MK’s “Report from the Street” performed by 8 of LA’s finest actors at Urban First Aid, in Hollywood.
August 22, 2026: MK POEM PUBLISHED IN ANTHOLOGY MK’s poem “Future Diagnosis” appears in Microscopic, an anthology published by The Word’s Faire. June 16, 2026: MK DOG IN NEW MOVIE Rocky, a Papillon-mix trained by MK to bark on cue, appears in “Miss You, Love You,” starring Alison Janney and Andrew Rannells. He makes his cameo in...
“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.” – U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, ordering the release of a 5-year-old boy kidnapped and jailed...
Domestic Terrorists“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.” – U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, ordering the release of a…
David Breskin, a renowned record producer, author and artist, wrote a poem every day for six months in 2024, prohibiting himself from revising. Instead, he “timestamped” each work at the moment of completion — and returned to composition the next day. The resulting book, Timestamp: The Daily Practice of Poetry, is a triumph, simultaneously entertaining, provocative,...
