Clive Matson

Clive Matson: MFA Columbia University, was mentored by the Beats in 1960s’ East Village of New York and Herbert Huncke became his second father. He fell into the passionate intensity that streams through us all and makes no, zero, effort to extract himself. He describes the power of the creative unconscious in Let The Crazy Child Write! An excerpt of Hello, Paradise. Paradise, Goodbye, premiered in 2017 in Paris, treats unrest and threats of extinction through the lens of future grief. Visit him at matsonpoet.com.