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 mostly made a living doing custom woodworking. I talk more about myself in FAMILY ANECDOTES

POETRY CHAPBOOKS:
Yoga Sutras of Fidel Castro (Homeward Press, 2013)
Revolutionary Alchemy (Homeward Press, 2012)
Scorched Birth (Beatitudes Press, 2004)
Columbus in the Bay of Pigs, (Homeward Press/Inkworks, 1988, 1991)
Decade: The 1990s, (Mother’s Hen, 1987)
Tidal News, (Homeward Press, 1982)
Cosmic Athletics, (Poetry for the People, 1980)
Ride the Wind, (Poetry for the People, 1979)
The San Francisco General Strike, (Cloud House, 1978)
Insurrection/Resurrection, (Working Peoples Artists, 1975, with photos by Ken Light and graphics by Bruce Kaiper)
Commu 1 (Gnosis Press, 1971)
Change/ Tears (Drop City, 1967).

FICTION:
The Outlaws of Maroon (Homeward Press, 2019)
The Co-op Conspiracy (Homeward Press, 2014).

HISTORY:
Indigenous Peoples Day (IPD Press, 2017)
For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism, with intro by Ishmael Reed, (PM Press, 2009, 2012)
History of Collectivity in the Bay Area, (Homeward Press, 1982)
History of Work Cooperation in America, (Homeward Press, 1980).

TRANSLATION:
Ancient American Poets: Maya, Inca and Aztec poets.(Bilingual Press, Arizona State University, 2005; revised edition, Homeward Press, 2021)
Ancients (libretto), 2009. Composed by Tania Leon for two sopranos, flute, clarinet, percussion, viola and cello. Translations and transliterations of Pachacutec poems.

MEMOIR:
Memories of Drop City (iUniverse, 2008).

PLAY:
The Trial of Christopher Columbus, performed by PEN Writers Theater, Berkeley and Oakland, 2009; The Conquest of America performed by the Nature Theater of San Francisco, 1982.

VIDEOS:
Rainbow Weather, 2020
Wheel In A Wheel, 2020
The President’s Demon, 2020
The San Francisco General Strike, 2020
Shelter In Place, 2020
Cloud Castles, 2020
The Heights of Hungry Coyote (Star Rover Productions, 1990)
(BACE Award, Best Docudrama of the Year, 2nd place),
The Columbus Invasion (Collision Course Productions, 1991)