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1939: born in Providence RI, Feb 26
1953-1956: attended Classical Highschool (4 years of Latin)
1956-1958: attended Brown University (majored in Geology, one
English course)
1958: summer, left Brown and hitched to L.A. (Kerouac, Thomas Wolfe,
Existentialists)
1958-1959: lived in Greenwich Village (Horatio St)
first writings
1960-1961: back in Providence, bebop drums w/Buell Neidlinger,
met Jonathan Williams through mutual interest in
H.P. Lovecraft
1962: married Toni Carbo, worked in Order Dept Brown Library
experimenting with cut-ups/chance generation
(ex: Bond Sonnets)
1963: attended summer poetry seminar at UBC Vancouver (Olson,
Ginsberg, Duncan, Whalen, et al)
met Michael Palmer there
met David Meltzer in SF enroute
1964: began editing JOGLARS w/Palmer (thru 1966--3 issues)
met Louis Zukofsky
1965: attended Conference on Little Magazines at Library of
Congress
met Aram Saroyan there
attended Berkeley Poetry Conference that summer
1966: marriage broke up, moved to NYC, w.85th st near Saroyan
met Ted Berrigan
first reading at Folklore Center under Ted's aegis
first book published (Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric
from Aram Saroyan's Lines Books)
1966-1967: Fall/Winter, shared house in Cambridge w/Saroyan
April moved to SF to join David Meltzer's Serpent Power band
married Susan Hopkins in December
1968: daughter Ceclia Elizabeth born
met Bernadette Mayer
met Philip Guston
1969-1970: produced weekly poetry show (WORDS) for KPFA Berkeley
made word-tapes at Mills College Tape Center
1970: Moved to Hancock Mass, Berkshire Hills
Rock Notes collaboration w/Tom Clark
1971: The Maintains
1972: Polaroid
began collaborations with Philip Guston
began collaboration (THE CAVEWORK) with Bernadette Mayer
1973: story collaborations w/Larry Fagin
began "The Long Prose"
Quartz Hearts
1974: watched Spielberg shoot Jaws on Martha's Vineyard, wrote
Subject to a Film
1977: first Naropa Institute summer
1979: Melencolia
1981: traveled to Galapagos Islands, Peru (Machu Picchu)
1984-1985: taught winter semester at Naropa Institute
Writer in Residence at American Academy in Rome
travelled to Egypt in January 1985
1986: Translation Session at Royaumont Foundation, France
readings in Paris
1989: traveled to Soviet Union w/Rova Saxophone Quartet
met Arkadii Dragomoschenko
1990: readings in Scandanavia and Russia with American & Russian
poets
1992: visited Berlin Literarisches Colloquium
readings in London
1993: formed MIX poetry & Jazz group with David & Tina Meltzer
1996: edited Jim Brodey's poems (Heart of the Breath)
1997: moved to Petaluma California
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