was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1935. After high school he began his career of many F’s in several universities both in the U.S. and abroad. After receiving an undergraduate degree in Geology and working on oil rigs, his friend of over 50 years, Charley Plymell, recommended him to the Director of the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University. He accepted. At the time, he was working in Oahu, Hawaii as a dry wall hanger and taper. Previously, he had been an active rodeo rider and became a member of the RCA. He drove stock cars for SCCA and for Donald Healy of Birmingham, England, driving in National races in Germany, France and Italy. His last job was as a relief driver for Maserati of Turin, Italy. Along the way, he acquired five marriages, (three lost to death), a retirement from the Merchant Marine, and businesses in Hong Kong and Santa Rosa, California. He has three daughters, has resided in 22 countries, and has enjoyed a charmed marriage to his present wife for 19 years. His publications include, Dreams of Straw, Auerhahn Press, San Francisco, 1963; West by East by West, Cauthern Publications, London, England, 1973; Kansas Collateral, Cherry Valley Editions, Cherry Valley, New York, 1978; Wild Whispers, Synaesthesia Press, San Francisco, 2001; Practicing To Be A Zoo Animal, Butcher Shop Press, Long Island, New York, 2003; and Leaky Valves, Glass Eye Books, Florence, Massachusetts / Ecstatic Peace Books, Northampton, New York, 2011.

was born in 1935 in Kansas, involved in the Beat scene in New York in the 1950s, and was a notable figure in the San Francisco literary scene in the 1960s. He shared a house with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady on Gough Street in 1963. He has been published widely, collaborated with, and published many poets, writers, and artists, including principals of the Beat Generation. He opposes the National Endowment for the Arts and has criticized it in print. He claims it became a politicized unjust system feeding on its own mediocrity and self – contradiction. He was subsequently blacklisted and has never received any funding from any federal, state, or academic agency to pursue his creativity.  He was influential on underground comix artists such as Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson. He has published, printed, designed many underground magazines and books with Pamela Beach, a namesake in avant – garde publishing, whom he married. His books include, Apocalypse Rose, Dave Haselwood Books, San Francisco, 1967; Neon Poems, Atom Mind Publications, Syracuse, New York, 1970; The Last of the Moccasins, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1971; and Hand on the Doorknob, Water Row Books, Sudbury, Massachusetts, 2000.

born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. In 1972 his second book, Burnt Heart, Ode to the War Dead, was also published by City Lights. He was the winner of the Ina Coolbrith Award for poetry and the James D. Phelan Award for the manuscript of poems in progress that became Dawn Visions. From 1966 to 1969, he wrote and directed ritual theatre for his Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California. He published three books of poetry in the 1980’s, The Desert is the Only Way Out, The Chronicles of Akhira, and Halley’s Comet. In 1989, he wrote the libretto for a commissioned oratorio by American composer, Henry Brant, entitled Rainforest. Other books include, the best selling The Zen Rock Garden, a men’s movement anthology, Warrior Wisdom, and The Blind Beekeeper, Syracuse University Press (2002).

a “second generation Beat writer,” he came to San Francisco in 1957. During the late 1950s period of the San Francisco renaissance, his personal expression as a young poet was formed by his association with Michael McClure, Lew Welch, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Philip Whalen. He is the author of several books of poetry, the most recent being, No Eyes: Lester Young (Black Sparrow Press, 2002) and Beat Thing (La Alameda Press). In the interim he also put together San Francisco Beats: Talking with the Poets (City Lights Books). He teaches in the graduate Poetics and undergraduate Humanities programs at New College of California.