19th Anniversary Show featuring Leigh White & Brendan Constantine!

Help us celebrate 19 years of Idiocy with two of our favorite human beings!

Leigh White

Leigh White was born on the south side of Chicago. She is a prolific painter and accomplished poet in Orange County, CA. She’s been writing and performing poetry since 1997. She pays for art supplies with a successful career in marketing, advertising copywriting, design and illustration. In her spare time, she helps the homeless.

Brendan Constantine

Brendan Constantine was born in Los Angeles, the second child of actors Michael Constantine and Julianna McCarthy. An ardent supporter of Southern California’s poetry communities and one of its most recognized poets, he has served as a teacher of poetry in local schools and colleges since 1995.

His first collection, ‘Letters to Guns,’ was released in February 2009 from Red Hen Press to wide acclaim. This was followed in 2011 by ‘Birthday Girl With Possum,’ under the performance based publisher Write Bloody, and established Mr. Constantine as a poet equally at home on the page and the stage.  His work can be found in many of the nation’s standards, including Best American Poetry, Poem-a-Day, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Field, and Chautauqua. His most recent collections are ‘Bouncy Bouce’ (2018 Blue Horse Press) and ‘Dementia, My Darling’ (2016 Red Hen Press).

Mr. Constantine has received support from the Getty Museum, James Irvine Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on NPR’s All Things Considered, KPFK’s Poetry Cafe, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He currently teaches creative writing at the Windward School.

In addition, he brings poetry workshops to veterans, hospitals, foster care centers, & shelters for the homeless. He is also very proud of his work with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project. Since 2017, he has been working with speech pathologist Michael Biel to develop the first poetry workshop for people dealing with Aphasia.

His sister Thea Constantine is a novelist and teacher in Portland, Oregon.