Under the influence of both the River and irreverence, Mari 'Diz/zy' Deweese lives and sings and writes of what she's learned on the rougher, sometimes slicker, side of the Queer American dream in Memphis. When she isn't busy selling whatever sells these days, she releases her work through the blessed small presses, and her artist pages on social media. Her first three books, or 'The Kinky Volumes', from Nixes Mate Books stand as a solid introduction to the rest of the poets, and the rest of what's left.