You work at a hotel. A man checks in to the hotel with arms in plaster casts sticking straight out from his body. Later in the day the man calls down to your desk and explains that he’s not certain how to get himself dressed for the day.
What do you do?
Concierge Roc tells the story of how he teamed up with Annie, the Pfister’s Head of Housekeeping, to satisfy the needs of a guest in a whimsically compromising situation. No matter the job at hand, they’re always glad to serve.
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Ed Makowski is a poet/writer/artist/radio personality/gatherer of stories and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
While working as Eddie Kilowatt he released two poetry books, Manifest Density and Carrying a Knife in to the Gunfight. Density was included in Best New Poetry of 2006 and Gunfight received the Carma Writer’s Award. Both were released on his indy press Full Contact Publishing.
Ed is also a regular contributor of interviews to Lake Effect on Milwaukee’s NPR station 89.7 WUWM. This is also where he curates The Lunch Counter storytelling series. Through April the Pfister Hotel is home to The Lunch Counter. Ed will serve as the Pfister Narrator through April 2012.
Ed is also working on a few different poetry books, each taking overtly different directions; dialogue poems, history poems, longer storytelling poems.
Between writing projects and working Ed likes to ride motorcycles and backpack into the middle of nowhere.
Molly Snyder is the 6th Pfister Narrator. She will serve as narrator from May 2013 through November 2013. In this role, she will spend time in the hotel’s lobby and public spaces, speaking with visitors and guests and sharing their stories on The Pfister’s award-winning blog.
“I am honored to be the Pfister Narrator,” said Snyder. “The position combines the things that matter to me the most: writing, Milwaukee and human connection.”