Lives in New York, NY
Born 1945, Massena, NY
Poet
I am a poet who writes poems since 1963. I attend to it daily. There are my roots and all the transient influences. There are my habits and my tastes, and there's who I am, especially when I don't know it. I've felt strong analogous ties to the arts of jazz and cinema. My daily life as a Nurse Clinician contributes the bulk of my social life, and in my case it is in otherwise inaccessible places with segregated people. There's an endless more to it, but really it's about practice. I don't aim my poems. At this point, I value economy. I instinctively stretch associations. I prefer the poem to be read as something of a meditation on the move. I want the poem to express the amount of attention I pay. My goal in a poem is to have my movement. Occasionally I do.
1994 B.S., School of Nursing, Columbia University
1967 A.B., Princeton University
1974-1975; 1982-1983 Leader, Poetry Workshops, The Poetry Project
2008 City of Corners. Seattle, WA: Wave Books
2003 Private Lemonade. New York, NY: Adventures in Poetry
2001 Push the Mule. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures
1998 Midnight On Your Left. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures
1984 Where the Weather Suits My Clothes. Calais, VT: Z Press
1982 Dabble. New York, NY: Full Court Press
1976 Music of the Curbs. New York, NY: Adventures in Poetry
1973 Three Poems. New York, NY: Bouwerie Editions
1971 26 Poems. New York, NY: Adventures in Poetry
1986, 1989 Fund for Poetry Awards
1984 Poetry Fellow of the General Electric Foundation
