Michael Lane BrunerMichael Lane Bruner is a founding member of the performance poetry troupes the Lost Tribe and the Carma Bums, which performed across the western United States between 1985 and 2009, influenced by such sources as the Beats, Living Theater, Surrealism, and the free-verse tradition in American poetry. Bruner is also a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and in that capacity he has published several scholarly books and dozens of peer-reviewed essays on the relationship between politics and aesthetics. His creative writing has appeared in venues such as Evergreen Review and the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Read More Read Less