Year: 2021

Fragments of My Life

FAMILY ANECDOTES THE DROP CITY NEWSLETTERS THE WALL POEMS OF NJ POETRY IN THE STREETS REVIEWS OF MY POETRY THE WEST BERKELEY PLAN THE TRIAL OF COLUMBUS MY BOOKS JUSTICE FOR TYRONE ANCIENT AMERICAN POETS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY WORKER CO-OPS vs WAGE SLAVERY MY...

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The West Berkeley Plan

INDUSTRIAL COUNTERCULTURE I arrived Berkeley in 1971, and found a small place in a housing co-op on Channing Way, in a little addition behind the main house. It was perfect for us, a family of three. I made contact with a construction collective called Build, and...

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My Near-Death Experiences

The idea for my novel, The Outlaws of Maroon, just came to me out of the blue. I had sat down to write something else, when a childhood memory flashed into my mind. The memory of a place we used to call The Little Woods, something I hadn’t thought about for many...

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Family Anecdotes

I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth. — Mahatma GandhiIf a fool persists in his folly, he would become wise. — William Blake I BECOME A POET Since my grandpa was a communist, you’d think we’d have subversive literature all around the...

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