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Bio by the author/ hyperlinks by iPoet. I was born October 2nd, 1953. Originally I lived in Greenwich Village. I graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. Later I flunked out of Cornell. My girlfriend and I hitchhiked South with her cat, Carey (named after the Joni Mitchell song). We found ourselves living in a boarding house in St. Petersburg, Florida, next door to Satanists. We met a guy who had tripped on mushrooms for 42 days in Gainesville. We moved to Gainesville, and broke up. I lived there for four years, and became a practitioner of yoga. I have hitchhiked 33,000 miles, I reckon. Later I went to the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado where Allen Ginsberg used to teach. I dropped back into college, and received an MFA in creative writing from city college (NY). I studied with Ted Berrigan. From 1978 to 1998 I lived in Manhattan in (except for 15 months traveling to India, and four months working in telemarketing in Denver) . Mostly I have worked with mentally retarded adults. This is my life history. Now I inhabit Phoenicia, New York with my wife Violet Snow and our daughter Sylvia. We live above a children's clothing shop across from a bar called the Sportsman's. I am a substitute teacher.



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