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by Tim Brookover POET PROFILE

Name: Todd (Toddicus) Alan Helvey Gresley

Age: Older than I look

Birthplace: Anderson, Indiana

Occupation: Art director at Retro Gallery

Current Endeavor: Author of the just-published poetry collection, Indiana the Island (Atahualpa Press).

Next ambition: To release new material and work on new music.

Inspirations: Siouxsie and The Banshees, Kate Bush, Morrissey, Anne Sexton

I am most proud of: Telling people how I feel no matter what—and my Siouxsie collection, of course.

What’s next? More books … poetry readings … and dating perhaps??

On September 24, Gresley will read from Indiana the Island, his first published work, at Helios at 8 p.m. Gresley’s book is available for sale through his website, www.toddicus.com as well as www.amazon.com and select local bookstores (“No corporate bookstores! Rahhrr!” he wrote in a recent e-mail). Visitors to the site can also order artwork from the book by local illustrator Brandon Hancock, whose spare, offbeat drawings recall Edward Gorey.

Gresley also wrote us about his site: “I was in a rock band for 10 years, and a popular thing to do is to release an EP of work or a single with extra tracks—or B sides. On the website, there will be a keyword in which you can type in on the website and read some of the poems that never made it to the book and poems that correlate with “the single” poems as well—“B Side Poems,” if you will. A first in the poetry world.”

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