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Born December 31, 1968 in Hudson Falls, New York, started writing poetry in Junior High School in the late '70s. Been unemployed most of his life.
The 90s is where he began to broaden and span out in though and his writing. Eventually in the early twenty- first century he began to create a series of poetic anthologies. These include 'Tints, Tones and Hues' poetry about colors, which is a three volume series. The third is of leftovers[34 poems] with an addition of 19[best of] of the previous two. 'Nursery Rhyme Reconstructions' is flip-side of Mother Goose, Poems about people, places, things and incidents where he lives 'Homespun', 'Slang Poetry Volume I' that are poems from the '20s, '30s, '40s and the Old West. He also has a series 'Expre Born December 31, 1968 in Hudson Falls, New York, started writing poetry in Junior High School in the late '70s. Been unemployed most of his life.
The 90s is where he began to broaden and span out in though and his writing. Eventually in the early twenty- first century he began to create a series of poetic anthologies. These include 'Tints, Tones and Hues' poetry about colors, which is a three volume series. The third is of leftovers[34 poems] with an addition of 19[best of] of the previous two. 'Nursery Rhyme Reconstructions' is flip-side of Mother Goose, Poems about people, places, things and incidents where he lives 'Homespun', 'Slang Poetry Volume I' that are poems from the '20s, '30s, '40s and the Old West. He also has a series 'Expressing Art Through Poetry' that he uses not only his abstract photos to write poems of what he sees in them, but also other artist works from his area.He also has a series with crosswords, where he takes all the answers to a crossword and attempt to create a poem that make some sense titled 'Crossword Poems'. The poet also uses another puzzle from the newspaper to create another series called 'Jumbled Poems' which appears in 'Jumble Bourbon' that includes several poems about bourbon. He also has created poems through listening to music. Poetry Anthologies include 'To Suckle the Senses of Nursery Rhyme Reconstructions', 'Jumbled Bourbon'[that includes two mixed drink recipes on the back cover] 'Death on a Bicycle', 'Homespun', 'Slang Poetry Volume I', 'Expressing Art Through Poetry', 'Crossword Poems', 'Tints, Tones and Hues Volume I', 'Tints, Tones and Hues Volume II', 'Tints, Tones and Hues Volume III' and a five sectioned poetry anthology of mixed bags 'The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 5' that is a260 poem book. All books include 52 poems to pay tribute to his grandparent for introducing him to card games. Hence, the number of the poems are the same amount of cards in a standarized deck. Except the last book with 260 poems in which there are 5 sections that has 52 poems in each section. The mixed bag book is a combination of several different series.
He regularly attends open mics. Both regular and poetry open mics. There is where he either reads or performs them. He sometimes creates soundscapes[music] with different objects that are considered unconventional musical instruments. He also gets into other realms of art, like photography, drawings, film, painting, dance and hopefully soon to be playwrite. ...more

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