A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans: born in 1936, in San Francisco, California, is an American poet, essayist, short story writer, and publisher. In 1962, he graduated from San Francisco State College. He was the founder of Second Coming Press, a small press based in San Francisco that published books, poetry broadsides, a magazine, and anthologies. He became friends with Charles Bukowski, whose work he published. Other writers he published included Jack Micheline, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Levine, Josephine Miles, David Meltzer, Charles Plymell. etc. In 2002, he published his memoir, Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & The Second Coming Revolution. He has written 63 books of poetry, and two books of prose.