For more of my videos, go to my YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/JohnCurlPoetry/ POEM FOR JACK https://youtu.be/b3zEsybicHs THE SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL STRIKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXMVya43SPs&t=291s A WHEEL IN A WHEEL...
email: jcurl@red-coral.net ABOUT ME I was born and mostly raised in Manhattan, and some in New Jersey. I received a BA in comparative literature from New York City College in 1965. I have an extraordinary daughter, and I've lived in the Bay Area since 1971, where I...
I was a custom woodworker at Heartwood Cooperative Woodshop in Berkeley for over forty years. A group of us ran the shop, usually six to eight who worked full time, plus a few part-timers and hobbyists. I did mostly cabinetry, a lot of kitchens, some furniture, and a...
Around 1980 I stumbled upon the truth about Columbus in an old National Geographic magazine: “His greed awakened, Columbus demanded of each adult an annual tribute: enough gold dust to fill four hawkbells. Pay or perish. Many Indians fled, but the Spaniards tracked...
PREFACE The very idea of ancient American poets and poetry may sound strange to some ears. In the United States, American poetry is often taught as if it is an extension of English poetry. Yet there were rich traditions of poetry on this continent long before the...
FOREWORD TO MY POETRY BY JACK HIRSCHMAN, 2012 Jack's Foreword to Revolutionary Alchemy, 2012 Berkeley Barb 1975 Poetry Flash 1981 L.A. Vanguard 1976 City Arts San Francisco 1982 WorkForce 1975 Challenge 1975 ROGER TAOS, L.A. Vanguard...
POETRY POSTERS, 1977-1982 This is a series of over fifty poem broadsides that I printed, posted in public places, and gave away in the streets and at readings and in the San Francisco Bay Area during between around 1977 and '82. Included in the collection are other...
On November 1, 1973, three Emeryville, CA white police gunned down Tyrone Guyton, a fourteen-year-old Black teenager from behind. The Oakland Black Panthers launched a major campaign to bring the killer cops to justice. I wrote a poem about it, entitled, "Emeryville...
A Drama by John Curl CHARACTERSCHRISTOPHER COLUMBUSCAONABO, chief of HaitiCOMMANDER BOBADILLA, Royal InquisitorANACAONA, an Indian woman, spiritual leaderHATUEY, a young Indian manLIEUTENANT OJEDA, a career officerFRIAR BUIL, a worldly monkFRIAR MONTESINOS a young...
Poetry in the Streets 1973-1976 In 1971 I returned to California after living in Drop City, Colorado, for two and a half years, and then in New Mexico for two years, where I worked on the Navajo Reservation. I settled in Berkeley and soon began reading my work at open...
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