Unbeknownst to my closest relatives and friends, I started writing poetry during my senior year in high school in Paterson, New Jersey. Members of Paterson’s literary tradition had inspired me, most notably Louis and Allen Ginsberg and William Carlos Williams, as well as my senior English teacher and published poet, Ms. Teresa Behrman, who introduced my class to the English Romantics. In the early 70s while living upstate NY and then St. Louis, I helped organize/participate in various poetry readings, co-founded KBDY FM, an urban community-owned radio station, created and produced a community issues and poetry hour, and hosted a biweekly bebop jazz radio program on KDNA FM. A few years later after relocating to Bisbee, Arizona, I helped found the Bisbee Poets Collective and facilitate the annual Bisbee Poetry Festival, which featured some of America’s finest, including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Drummond Hadley, Diane Di Prima, Gregory Corso, and scores more. During the ’80s, ’90s, and into the 2000 teens, I participated in dozens of poetry readings around the country while living, teaching, and workshopping English and Creative Writing in the US and abroad. My life's work continues, composing and publishing from my home in Tucson, AZ.