is a retired professor of English from Odessa College.  His poetry is included in Eclipse, The Mayo Review, Pinyon Poetry, The Temple, Poetica: Reflections of Jewish Thought, Sierra Nevada College Review, and Mizmor L’David Anthology.  His short fiction has appeared in Sephardie –American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy, Texas Short Stories, and Terra Incognita.  One of his short stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

publications include The Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, New York Quarterly, The Stinging Fly (Ireland), Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, among many others.  One poem, “How the Hard Rains Did Fall,” was runner up for Cutthroat’s Joy Harjo poetry prize; another poem, “Grip,” was the winner of Atlanta Review’s ’09 International Poetry Competition.  Finally, Nights of Naked Mannequins, a book of “noir poems,” (editor’s phrase) was published last year by Austin Hall Press.  A graduate of California State University, Fresno, he now lives and writes in the high desert of southern California.  Vagabond post grad: Trinity College, Dublin; St. Johns, Santa Fe, NM.  He spent periods of time dwelling in Greece and Ireland.

is a poet, teacher, broadcast interview host, and a charter e – poets.net site director in Auburn, Washington.  He is director of the Northwest Spokenword Lab (Northwest SPLAB!), a recognized venue for written and performed poetry in the Seattle -Tacoma area.  As such, he has interviewed such notable poets as Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure, Jerome Rothenberg, Joanne Kyger, Diane di Prima, and others for his broadcasting enterprise, now known as Global Voices Radio.  He wrote Organic Poetry (VDM Verlag, Germany, 2008) as well as a serial poem re – enacting the history of Auburn, Washington, A Time Before Slaughter (Apprentice House, 2010).  Recent publications on and off – line include: Pageboy, Menacing Hedge, Fieralingue, Rain Taxi, Solitary Plover, The Soul of the Earth Anthology, Along the Rim: The Best of the Pacific Rim Review (Vol 2), Inactual, Raft Magazine and Golden Handcuffs Review. He lives in Seattle and writes at least one American Sentence every day.

at the age of 22 he gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read “Howl.”  Today, he is more active than ever, writing and performing his poetry.  He has worked extensively with his friend Ray Manzarek, the Doors’ keyboardist, at festivals and colleges and clubs.  He has given hundreds of reading in venues as varied as the Fillmore Ballroom, Yale University, The National Biodiversity Conference at the Smithsonian, and the Library of Congress.  He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Obie Award for Best Play, an NEA grant, the Alfred Jarry Award, and a Rockefeller grant for playwriting.  He has written twenty plays and musicals; fourteen books of poetry including Jaguar Skies, Dark Brown, Huge Dreams, Rebel Lions, Rain Mirror, and Plum Stones; eight books of plays; four collections of essays; and two novels, The Mad Cub and The Adept.  His songs include “Mercedes Benz,” popularized by Janis Joplin.  He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area hills with his wife, the sculptor, Amy Evans McClure.