Tinker Greene

Tinker Greene: grew up in Vermont. During the seventies he led a poetry scene in Burlington, VT similar to the one that gave birth to The Café Review. For the nearly 40 years since 1980 however he has dwelt in San Francisco CA, to mingle not only with such elders as Robert Duncan, Anselm Hollo, Diane di Prima, and Joanne Kyger, but successive generations of poets who formed poetry communities there. From time to time at Bay Area readings he would distribute free self–published chapbooks, which have now been collected in Blue Flame Ring, available from Poltroon Press in Berkeley CA. He presently lives in Chicago.