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Editors
JACK's founders and editors are myself (Mary Sands) and Michael Rothenberg. We really got a mutual kick out of the whole thing, e-mail flying back and forth days on end, the momentum going, deciding whom to contact, what to add, and so on. For quite a while I'd had some vague vision of an extension of Beat News that would go beyond the beat generation. I was hungry for art and poetry and literature of the same vein, but for something happening now, not forty to sixty years ago. I knew it was happening, could feel its pulse, but felt out of the loop. Reading Punk Rockwell, by Michael, seeing its connection to that underlying feel of what the beats were after, propelled this idea forward—and then several conversations with Michael later, the idea of JACK materialized. And he was into it, and it just jumped like that. Michael absolutely must be credited with JACK's origin, as our visions crucially connected, as he went to a lot of effort to contact people he knew to get them in on the idea and submit works, as his constant support fueled the drive to put something like this up for others to enjoy.
The title "JACK Magazine" was coined by my very fabulous pal and jazz radio host, Nazz Nomad. Nazz also contributed the flash animations.
Artwork
Nancy Victoria Davis is a painter, illustrator, book designer, installation artist and co-founder of Big Bridge Press. Born in New York and raised in Ada, Alabama, she took the big bridge to California in 1975, and since then has surrounded herself with art and nature. In addition to operating a tropical plant nursery, she has been inspired by poetry and illustrated the works of Jim Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Michael McClure, Andrei Codrescu, and Joanne Kyger. She has been awarded The Rounce and Coffin Award for her design and illustration of "What The Fish Saw," and her broadside "Elegy For The Dusky Seaside Sparrow" was chosen as Best Broadside of The Year by Fine Print Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library, the San Francisco Public Library, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery. Her illustrations have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Nerve Bundle Review, Mike & Dale's Younger Poets and Cafe Review (www.mainelink.net).
Feature Story
Dan Barth is a writer and teacher. He lives in Mendocino County, California with his wife Mary and son Nate. He has written for Literary Kicks, Kerouac Connection, Beat Scene and Dharma Beat, and has presented papers to Beat Literature conferences at New York University and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. For more information check www.rahul.net/jag/barth.html.
Essays
Mary Sands was born in Louisville, Kentucky, raised in the Midwest, and currently lives near Laguna Beach, California. She is a graduate of Purdue University, with degrees in English and anthropology. She is a technical writer and editor, and was also an editor for years at Macmillan Publishing, in Indianapolis, Indiana, before moving to California. She has also freelance edited and written for Macmillan since her move to the West Coast. Her creative mainline includes designing, maintaining, researching for, and writing for Beat Generation News. She has written reviews of Off the Road (by Carolyn Cassady), Punk Rockwell (by Michael Rothenberg), and the article "Strange Prophecies Anew: Rethinking the Politics of Matter and Spirit in Ginsberg's Kaddish" (by Tony Trigilio). Her article "Back at the Whiskey" (McClure/Manzarek) will be published in the summer issue of Kerouac Connection. Her review of Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (by Paul Marion) will be published in the fall/winter issue of Kerouac Rag. Her short story "The Storyteller" was published as a narrative on a CD-ROM about electronic publishing, 1995. Her Beat News site offers bios of the beat generation women and men and articles about rucksacking, philosophy, beat art, and jazz. She also maintains a literary news calendar of beat events happening around the world. Her interests include the great outdoors, ecology, cultural anthropology, beat literature, and Renaissance movements. She enjoys hiking and does a tiny bit of surfing when the coastal waters are clean enough. She is most inspired by the life-long works of Gary Snyder and lists The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac, as her favorite novel.
Poetry
See above for Dan Barth.
William Burns phased into existence in Washington DC circa early 1950's putting him on the trailing edge to the beautiful people of the late sixties. Clearly he watched way too much Dobie Gillis and idolized Maynard (Shaggy from Scooby-Do for those under thirty). Bill is a strange confluence of degreed Electrical and Biomedical Engineer, graphic artist, actor, playwright, poet, father and husband, but his first love is poetry (OK, the kids are more important than poetry, but it runs a close second).
Tom Clark was born (1941) and raised in Chicago and attended the universities of Michigan (B.A.) and Cambridge (M.A.). He did postgraduate research on the poetry of Ezra Pound, resulting in a thesis, "The Formal Structure of The Cantos." From England in the 1960s he edited a series of mimeograph magazines featuring a generation of younger poets who would also appear in The Paris Review during his ten-year tenure as poetry editor (1963-1973). His own poetry has appeared in many volumes, from the 1960s (Stones, Air) through such recent books as a poetic life of John Keats (Junkets on a Sad Planet) and a poetic history of the Northwest Coast fur trade (Empire of Skin); his other poetry titles include When Things Get Tough on Easy Street, Paradise Resisted, Disordered Ideas, Fractured Karma, Sleepwalker's Fate, Like Real People and White Thought. He has written many books on sports and popular culture, as well as a number of biographies of writers: The World of Damon Runyon, Late Returns: A Memoir of Ted Berrigan, Jack Kerouac, Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place, and Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life. His works in fiction include a volume of tales, The Last Gas Station, and three novels, Who Is Sylvia?, The Exile of Celine, and The Spell. He has also written literary reviews for many newspapers and journals, including the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle (for which he has served as poetry critic since 1978). He has taught literature at a number of colleges and universities, and since 1986 has been a member of the Core Faculty in Poetics at New College of California.
Neal Dwyer studied poetry at the University of Nice, France, and George Mason University. He teaches English at the College of Southern Maryland. His poems have appeared in Iowa Review and Tar River Poetry. He is also Editor of the literary magazine Connections.
Dr. Coral Hull was born in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia in 1965. She spent her childhood in Liverpool, on the outer western suburbs of Sydney. Coral is a full time writer specialising in poetry, experimental prose fiction, prose poetry and literary articles. Her work has been published extensively in literary magazines in the U.S.A., Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.
She is also the Editor of The Book of Modern Australian Animal Poems, an anthology of Australian poets writing about animals from 1900-1999. She has lectured and read poetry at various venues, festivals and conferences both in Australia and internationally.
Coral has an interest in photography, performance poetry and astronomy. She is a member of The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, The Poets Union Inc, The NT Field Naturalists Club and The Australian Society of Authors.
Her published books are: In The Dog Box Of Summer in Hot Collation, Penguin Books Australia, 1995, William's Mongrels in The Wild Life, Penguin Books Australia, 1996, Broken Land, Five Islands Press, 1997 and How Do Detectives Make Love?, Penguin Books Australia, 1998.
Coral is an animal rights advocate and the Editor of Thylazine, an electronic literary journal featuring articles, interviews, photographs and the recent work of Australian writers and artists working in the areas of landscape and animals.
She completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts Degree (Creative Writing Major) at the University of Wollongong in 1987, 1st Year of a Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree (Conceptual Art) at the South Australian College of Advanced Education in 1990, a Master of Arts Degree at Deakin University in 1994, and a Doctor of Creative Arts Degree (Creative Writing Major) at the University of Wollongong in 1998.
Coral and her two canine companions Binda and Kindi recently spent eight months in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, where Coral worked on a book documenting tropical landscapes. She is presently based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. For more information, see Coral's complete biography and website Thylazine.
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa has published poetry in a number of American small press magazines. Originally from the Midwest, she has lived in Japan since 1989. She can be reached at: vf2j-nkgw@asahi-net.or.jp.
Paul Marion was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1954. He grew up in French Canadian-American parishes in Lowell and Dracut. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, he also studied at the University of California-Irvine. He is the author of several collections of poetry. He edited Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac. His poems and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Wisconsin Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Public Art Review, Yankee, Bostonia, Carolina Quarterly, The Salmon (Ireland), Bohemian (Japan), and the anthology For A Living: The Poetry of Work. He is an editor and community relations liaison at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. He lives in Lowell with his wife and son. Reporting on the dedication of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative in 1988, The New Yorker wrote: “That the memorial exists at all is due mainly to Paul Marion, the cultural-affairs director of the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission.”
Michael McClure is a founding member of the Beat Generation and is noted for the popularity of his dynamic poetry readings. At the age of twenty-two he gave his first poetry reading at the Six Gallery, in the event that began the Beat Generation and the San Francisco poetry scene. Michael McClure is more active than ever, performing his poetry in venues as diverse and the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, N.Y.U., The Bottom Line, and the Iron Horse Coffee House.
The Los Angeles Times characterized McClure as "The role model for Jim Morrison." McClure's music sources range from Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, to the rock with which his poetry performances frequently share a bill. McClure's own songs include Mercedes Benz, popularized by Janis Joplin.
For years McClure has been working with his friend The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek. They play clubs, colleges and festivals like the Jack Kerouac Festival, and TV appearances on the shows of David Sanborn and Dennis Miller.
Poetry Flash described one of the poet's readings: "McClure-dressed in black—stood and uttered his words with a sort of sultry precision. His gestures punctuated his words, enthralling, enlisting a dynamic tension between audience and performer that didn't let up till the words stopped."
McClure is features in several films, among The Scorcese's Last Waltz, and Beyond The Law by Norman Mailer.
McClure is the author of the prize-winning and scandal-provoking play The Beard, which was arrested by the police fourteen nights in a row in Los Angeles. He is an accomplished novelist hailed by The New York Times. McClure has written the autobiography of his Hell's Angel friend, Freewheelin Frank Secretary of the Angels and the afterward to Jim Morrison's biography, as well as the text for Dennis Hopper's book of photographs.
McClure has published three new books of poetry in the last year: Touching the Edge, Huge Dreams, and Rain Mirror.
To find out more
about Michael McClure, as well as his upcoming performances with
Ray Manzarek of the Doors, see the Michael
McClure - Ray Manzarek site and the Michael McClure Home Page.
Laurence Overmire is an actor/director/writer who has
worked on stage, film and television. His poetry, eclectic in
form and often provocative in its direct confrontation of social
issues, has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad, most
recently in Nuthouse, Lynx Eye, Emotions, Angelflesh, Maelstrom,
Indie Journal, Office Number One, Main Street Rag Poetry Journal,
Niederngasse, Bardo Burner, Pegasus, Mobius, Footprints, Vol.
No. Magazine, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, Poetry DownUnder, Cotyledon,
Thunder Sandwich, This Hard Wind, Hinterland Litzine, Stark Raving
Aanity, apparent depth, Liquid Glyph, The Inditer, Pogonip, The
Penwood Review, Jack Magazine, Manx Fiction, CER*BER*US, Forbidden
Panda, Unlikely Stories, Ixion, and Stirring.
Wanda Phipps is a poet, journalist, dramaturg, translator as well as a singer/songwriter. Her poems have appeared in over sixty journals including Exquisite Corpse, Transfer, Red Tape, The World, Hanging Loose, Sensitive Skin, Long Shot, Agni Review and the webzines $lavery: Cyberzine of the Arts, Brooklyn Review Online, Poormag and Isibongo. She has two chapbooks: Lunch Poems, published by BOOG Literature and Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets, published by Situations Press. She's also on the editorial board for the New York City based literary magazine LUNGFULL! and contributing editor for the webzine Big Bridge.
Wanda's performed her work live all over the U.S. as well as on the CDs State Of The Union (Atavistic Records) produced by Elliott Sharp, Poemfone: New Word Order (Tomato Records) and the audio cassette magazines Weand A Sheep On The Bus. Her work can currently been found in four anthologies: Oblek: Writing From The New Coast, The Unbearables (Autonomedia), Valentine, and Verses That Hurt: Pleasure And Pain From The Poemfone Poets (St. Martin's Press). She was a co-recipient of a Meet the Composer/International Creative Collaborations Program Grant and has also received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Agni Review, the National Theatre Translation Fund and the New York State Council on the Arts. Her translations with Virlana Tkacz of Ukrainian poetry have appeared in several journals and anthologies including From Three Worlds: New Writing From Ukraine (Glas/Zephyr), A Kingdom Of Fallen Statues: Poems And Essays By Oksana Zabuzhko (Wellspring), Worlds Of Visions International Anthology, Eastern Visions Anthology and can be found collected in the volume Ten Years of Poetry From the Yara Theatre Workshops at Harvard.
Wanda coordinated the Monday Night Reading/Performance Series for three years as well as the 1998-1999 season of the Friday Night Series at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in NYC. She's also a founding member and dramaturg of Yara Arts Group (a resident theatre company of La Mama E.T.C., NYC) and has collaborated on seven theatrical productions with them, which have been presented in Ukraine and Siberia as well as in the U.S. She has also written about performance, experimental theatre and literary events for Time Out New York, High Performance, Paper Magazine, BoogLit and Cover. For more information check out her home page Mind Honey or e-mail her at Wanda@interport.net if you have comments or questions about her work.
Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, and editor and also co-founder of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry and everything else. His poems have appeared in many journals including 2river View, Beehive, Berkeley Poetry Review, Bolinas Heresay News, Blue Book, Cafe Review, The Cortland Review, The Duct Tape Press, Exquisite Corpse, Ironwood, Jacket, Isibongo, Lungfull!, Limestone Magazine, Light and Dust, Grist Mobile Anthology of Poetry, Lynx: Poetry From Bath, Melic Review, Moveo Angelus, Mudlark, Mungo vs Ranger, Octavo, Pearl, The Poetry Kit, Prosodia, Pyrowords, Riding The Meridian, Rolling Stock, Southern Ocean Review, Sycamore Review, Ygdrasil, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly Online and Zyzzyva.
He has published several poetry books: What The Fish Saw (Twowindows Press, CA, 1984), Nightmare Of The Violins (Twowindows Press, CA, 1986), Man/Woman (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1988), Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1990), and Lindsay's Book (Big Bridge Press, CA, 1999). His first book of poems, What The Fish Saw, was awarded The Rounce and Coffin Award. His broadside Elegy for The Dusky Seaside Sparrow was selected Broadside of the Year by Fine Print Magazine. His poem Angels was produced as broadside in limited edition by Hatch Show Prints as part of the museum resources of The Country Music Foundation.
His poetry books and broadsides are archived at the University of Francisco, and are held in the Special Collection libraries of Brown University, Claremont Colleges, University of Kansas, the New York Public Library, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, and UC-Santa Cruz.
His songs have appeared in Hollywood Pictures' Shadowhunter and Black Day, Blue Night, and most recently, TriStar Pictures' Outer Ozona. Other songs have been recorded on CDs including: "The Darkest Part of The Night" by Bob Malone, "Difficult Woman" by Renee Geyer, "Global Blues Deficit" by Cody Palance, "The Woodys" by The Woodys, and a soon to be released CD by Johnny Lee Schell. He is most recently editor of Overtime: Selected Poems of Philip Whalen (Viking Penguin, 1999).
His novel Punk Rockwell was published by Tropical Press, and his The Paris Journals will be published by Fish Drum, Inc,. later this year. He will also be editor of the Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger due out with Penguin 2002.
Larry Sawyer has been published in Nexus, Cokefish, Tabacaria, FZQ, Snakeskin, Skylark, Big Bridge, Exquisite Corpse, Ygdrasil, Elution, and ReadMe. He has work forthcoming in Cosmic Serpent, Mesechabe, Aught, Moria, and The East Village. In his spare time he edits milk magazine located at http://milkmag.org/index.htm. Volume one features Cid Corman, Bill Berkson, Frank Lima and Sheila E. Murphy, among others.
skye says this: "as mary sez, 'He's Neal Cassady at the metaphorical wheel, clickety-clacking away in the crossroads of the aether zone, zooming in, zooming on: a wondrous effort, too, at electronic revolution and poetry; at communicating during burstful midnights; and at many dialogs with others who've also posted to newsgroups.
He says: 'for i realize i now have probably 500 pages or so of my epic joycean novel/poem, which is kinda a journal collection of poems and letters and essays and crits, in which my Identity is that broadband flux of 'manufactured Identities: werdz in search of an author' as a neoretropostmodern manifesto artz performance piece kinda thang.'" skye adds:"i DO have a tendency to write much in the "anticipated relent-breath/less grunt-moan-blast-chant-yell-whisper-shout-talk-rant-n-rave-sing" mode, and so especially enjoy and prefer the 'over-the-top' storytelling sagas of shining vistas quite muchly;"
skye refuses to provide the definitive biography of who and/or what s/he is, preferring the freedom and relative anonymity of being a performative multi-media language/image/conceptual/experiential artist conflating philosophy/poetics with the metaesthetics of a gear-jamming biker/fishboat captain/hermit/AI computer program/historian/small-press publisher/psychosociologist/voyageur pilgrim/photojournalist/amateur cosmologist/conceptual engineer/nomad-roadside anthropologist on perpetual walkabout retreat, skating on the edge of the possible and gazing at planetfall's slipstream shadow from Cairn Lookout Peak, where the Caravanasaria flags flap bright and highest......
"Poetry is a form of song, a boundary art between music and conversation." -Herbert Kohl
Lina ramona Vitkauskas has received an Honorable Mention for STORY Magazine's Carson McCullers Prize for the Short Story (1999), placed as a quarterfinalist in the New Century Writer's Short Story and Novel Excerpts Awards (1999), and first in the DES Journal Competition (1996-Fiction). Her fiction has been placed upon ShortStory.org, and will be featured as an Editor's Pick on Web Del Sol. Fiction in The Wisconsin Review is also forthcoming. Her poetry has been published in The Poet (at age 11), The Outlet, milk, Mudlark, and Big Bridge. More poetry forthcoming in Posse Review and the RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network) supported anthology, Survivor Poetry. She is a Chicago native, Lithuanian-bred, and now playing in theatres near you.
Eddie Watkins grew up in Seaford, Delaware, once the Nylon Capital of the World courtesy of its Dupont plant where his father, and nearly every kid's, worked. As a child he was obsessed with insects and reptiles and read very little, though he pored endlessly over illustrated animal guides and Childcraft encyclopedias. (Animals and words are still inextricably linked in his mind.) Reading did not become a passion (in the form of Larry Niven's Ringworld first, then Faulkner's As I Lay Dying) until high school. He enjoyed small town life for the most part, but left at the first reasonable opportunity—college—heading out to St. Louis. He started writing rather late, Spring of his 21st year, as he was growing disillusioned with college and the Electrical Engineering degree he was pursuing (and eventually received). He didn't realize that poetry was something people actually DID, it was simply pre-existent; though the spell of the great English Romantics first read in high school has (gratefully) never been lifted from him, while engineering has become a strange interlude, a necessary misstep as he began practicing poetry as a form of fullest knowledge.
Chad Weatherford is a 25 yo college graduate from Memphis, TN trying to find a way to make Numbers out of Words.
Fiction
Michael Largo
has published three novels: Southern Comfort ("Largo's
writing manifests relentless and unremitting nerve,"Publishers
Weekly," 9/99); Lies Within: ("Brilliant dialogue,
convincing characters...echoes of Flannery O'Connor and Eudora
Welty," Library Journal, 3/99); and his newest, Welcome
to Miami (see Amazon.com for ordering information).
He's also grateful to have had his short fiction appear recently
in the following: Spark-Online, Eclectica, Melic Review, Trout
Magazine, Pif Magazine, The Best of Pif Offline, Exodus, Conflicting
Spectrums, Poet's Cut, Bonfire, Duct-Tape Press, Morpo Review,
Burn, Pulp Fiction, Mocha Memoirs, Yellow Dog Magazine, Isi Bongo,
Big Bridge, Nuketown, Bloody Muse, Indite Circle, Forbidden Panda,
New Earth Review, Manx Fiction, Conspire, 2RiverView, Solas,
Wings, StickyKeys, Pauper, Shank, Writer's Choice, Harpweaver,
Ashtray Angels, Plaintext, Creativity Magazine, Unlikely Stories,
PocolPress Anthology: Unusual Circumstances, and others.
Eco-Watch
Jack Collom teaches ecology-poetics and oversees Project Outreach at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he has been resident faculty for over a decade. A prolific writer, he has been published in over a hundred magazines and anthologies in the United States and abroad. His books include Arguing With Something Plato Said, The Task, and Entering the City. He has worked extensively with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative in New York City and published his ars poetica on teaching poetry, Moving Windows, under their aegis. He has twice been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Tuumba Press will be publishing a major collection of his selected poems in 2002.
Tea-Party
Mike Topp is an aristocratic rebel whose high-spirited life has captured the imagination of Europe. He attended Harrow and Cambridge, where he was a good student and a great athlete. A deformed foot has only increased his determination to excel.
The Path
Gary Gach is editor of the recent anthology What Book!? ~~ Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (American Book Award 1999), which continues on the web. Creative Arts will publish his next book of poems, tentatively titled Black Snow. His work has been published in Beatitude, City Lights Review, Fluxshoe, Grist, PoetryBay, and Zyzzyva.
Road Trips
Larry Jaffe says he was born on a mountaintop in the South Bronx (despite statements to the contrary and that there are no mountains in the Bronx), in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. From the time he could walk he either was going to play baseball, hoops or be a poet or writer. Either that or is the spiritual reincarnation of Davy Crockett. He just could not make up his mind. Jaffe felt he had that mountaintop thing in common with Crockett and his folks once bought him a coonskin cap that he felt ridiculous in, thus took off on this peculiar tangent. He is the product of his own dreams born and bred from Eastern European stock of Russia and Romania.
He has decided that he no longer believe in biographies. And adamantly poses that, " If you want to know who I am read my poetry… why must I trot out lists of places I have appeared and places I have been published or tell you about my childhood dreams to be a beatnik when I grew-up. Ain't that just plain boring? Read the words, read the poetry. It's all in there. The simplicity is I don't want to know what I have done I want to know what I am doing and will do. Another simplicity: the air is letters I breathe them in and simply breathe out poetry."
With this in mind his biographer, grimacing at the above grammar and language has decided to say that Jaffe has been featured in poetry venues and festivals both throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is very active in the poetry community hosting the very hot ultra chic weekly PoeticLicense series at Home Café in Los Feliz (www.poetix.net). Jaffe is also a featured poet for Daimler/Chrysler's Spirit in the Words poetry program. His web sites have won numerous awards (www.lgjaffe.com) and feels one of his best creations is the poets4peace site at www.poets4peace.com. Each month Jaffe writes a poetry column for www.about.com as the socal poetspondent for their Museletter. He has produced several chapbooks including: Winter Rose, Hate's not Natural and Eating the Rain. He has one e-book titled Jewish Soulfood, available from Dead End Street Publications (www.deadendstreet.com). His new CD Unprotected Poetry and accompanying book have just been released by PoetWarrior Press (www.poetwarrior.com). Pudding House Publications will be releasing a special book of Jaffe's Greatest Hits along with 12 other poets this June. He is contemplating his career as Davy Crockett poet, once again, having named his computer and truck after Crockett's rifle Ol' Betsy. He says that he is not confused as to which Betsy is which. And poet/critic Mike Cluff once said something very nice about him: "The best feature I have heard this year anywhere took place at Mc Clain's… Larry Jaffe, gave a wonderful reading that was wow inspiring. His presentation was a lively, intense, well-modulated, emotional read: precise and never over-the-top, forced or phony."
Politics
Zoketsu Norman Fischer is a Zen Buddhist priest and poet who served as co-Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center from 1995-2000. He now serves as a Senior Dharma teacher at Zen Center, and is the founder and teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation. His eight volumes of poetry include most recently Success (Singing Horse, 2000). He is also involved in interreligious dialogue and practice, and has written extensively on a variety of Buddhist topics.
Renaissances
See above for editors Mary Sands and Michael Rothenberg.
