Bio in his own words: 
"I am a poet and performer from the street corner  of 16th and Mission in San Francisco… have a birthmark on my belly the shape of the Island of Jamaica and that has grown as I've advanced in age and girth....have performed in ten different states and on the interweb....belong to the Collaborative Arts Insurgency that founded the 16th and Mission reading series and am a founding (and current) editor of the 16th and Mission Review... hold an MFA in poetics from the New College of California (may it rest in peace) and have been published just about everywhere I have cared to and also write plays, four of which have been produced. I have a yellow dog named Tugboat that weighs over a hundred pounds.

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