grew up in Brooklyn around the corner from Ebbets Field and spent the early sixties on the Lower East Side of New York.  In 1970, he opened The Tin Palace, a very hip and successful New York Jazz club which became the setting for his novel, The Tin Angel (Wm Morrow, 1983).  Redemption (Editions du Rocher, 1997), a second novel, is set against the genocide of Guatemalan Mayans.  My Brother’s Madness (Curbstone, 2007) a memoir, has received wide critical acclaim.  He has also published seven volumes of poetry: Onion, Hotel Madden Poems, Pines Songs, Breath, Adrift on Blinding Light, Taxidancing, and Last Call at The Tin Palace .  He edited a Tribute to Argentine poet Juan Gelman in the summer issue of The Café Review  (2009).  The 5th Symphony, with settings of his poems composed by Dan Asia, was performed by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in November, 2008.  He lives in Glens Falls, New York, where he practices psychotherapy and hosts the Lake George Jazz Weekend.

will publish a new book of poems, Begin in Gladness (Star Cloud Press), this spring.  Along with his translations of Raboni and Cucchi, he will also publish a chapbook called Local Colors, a suite of poems about the six New England states.  His fully rhymed translation of Dante’s Inferno, originally published in 2002, was reissued as a Norton Critical Edition in 2007.  He lives in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

cut his teeth wailing poesy in Greenwich Village, circa 1962 – 64, at the legendary Rafio Cafe.  He has dwelled in 47, not so exotic, ports of call.  Since 1992, 500 pieces of his work have been published; mostly in underground rags.  He has two chapbooks, blood on the floor and american child from Lummox Press.  He dropped off the planet for six or seven years and emerged again last year, still living in Saugerties, New York.

earned his MFA from Old Dominion University.  His fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southeast Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Panhandler Magazine, and The Summerset Review.  He currently teaches at a private school for students with learning differences and is adjunct faculty at his alma mater.  He lives in Chesapeake, Virginia with his wife and daughter.