hearing voices
(speaking in tongues)

Michael Mack's disarming one-man play about his mother's mental illness

Schizophrenia touches one in every hundred people, saints and sinners alike.

One family's true story of madness, love, and redemption.

coming soon:
kingdom of busted furniture

A boy, a priest ... you've heard the stories.

Michael Mack's forty-year journey of forgiveness.

"Exquisite"

National Public Radio

"Breathtaking"

Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Transcendent"

Boston Sunday Globe

"Healing"

Washington Post

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updated 08.18.08

"The poem is the point at which our strength gives out."

Richard Rosen

"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser

Aug '08 – So long, summer! Michael Mack's autumn performance schedule is "falling" together. Stay tuned....

May '08 – Mack presents for the Larry Carver Mental Health Series, Middleboro, MA, May 15th.

May '08 – Hearing Voices headlines at historic Mechanics Hall in Worcester MA, May 14th. More in media feature.

May '08 – Hearing Voices presents at Lasell College, Newton, MA.

Mar '08 – Mack's poem Spartacus Speaks accepted for publication in forthcoming anthology.

Jan '08 – Mack features with other poets to raise public awareness about mental illness.

Nov '07 – Hearing Voices plays the Indianapolis Spirit & Place Festival. Hear NPR interview.

Sep '07 – Mack features at Walden Pond, home of celebrated author Henry David Thoreau.

Aug '07 – Mack's poem Confession published in Best Catholic Writing 2007.

May '07 – Hearing Voices comes home to Baltimore. Read Baltimore Sun feature article.

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featured poems

Spartacus Speaks. "I see much from this height. Grape leaves wave like nailed palms, and my toes are sprouting flies...."

More poems....

Confession. "I loved the suspense – Saturdays, waiting on pews with ancient hunch-backed women whispering into their fists...."

Our Lady of Sorrows. "Why my mother chopped off her hair, why she followed me to the school bus stop that morning in second grade...."

More poems....