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lives in San Francisco, California.

was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1935. After high school he began his career of many F’s in several universities both in the U.S. and abroad. After

was born in 1935 in Kansas, involved in the Beat scene in New York in the 1950s, and was a notable figure in the San Francisco literary scene in

born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San

a “second generation Beat writer,” he came to San Francisco in 1957. During the late 1950s period of the San Francisco renaissance, his personal

at the age of 22 he gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read “Howl.”

has been associated with San Francisco poetry renaissance since the late 1950s. In the early 1960s he taught at San Francisco State College, and

October 23, 1927– March 7, 2005. He was born in San Francisco and raised in that city’s Excelsior neighborhood. He began writing poetry in

born in Vallejo, California in 1934 she is an American poet influenced by her practice of Zen Buddhism and her ties to the poets of Black

was born in South Dakota in 1935 and has lived in California since 1946. After Pomona College and three years as a naval officer, he became a

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