Experimental fiction writer, poet and performer Gregory SETH Harris openly admits to having a sordid love affair with language. One of Colorado’s most versatile performance poets, Harris has garnered several awards for his pioneering efforts to meld spoken word with the other performance arts. In his poetry collection, A Black Odyssey, his language runs the gamut from the vernacular to the Elizabethan, everything from pattern poems, free verse, prose poems, sonnets, to parodies of Mother Goose. His experimental short stories have appeared in numerous publications. In his satirical novel, The Perfect Stranger, his lyrical wordplay knows few bounds: a literary feast of puns, double-entendres, malapropism, deliberate misspellings and playful turns of phrasing. Anchored in Denver, Colorado Gregory SETH Harris performs spoken word weekly with an elastic ensemble of improvisational jazz musicians.