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His literary arts magazine, “Friction" (1983-1996)
was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Robert Creeley in
1985. His poetry, prose, interviews, and essays have appeared
in numerous anthologies, including Once Shamans, Now
Poets (Scotland, 2004), Poems from Penny Lane
(2004), A Poet's Alphabet (Tree House Press,
2000), Disembodied Poetics (University of New
Mexico Press, 1996), Locomotives and Sunflowers
(Nada Press, 1997), A Vow to Poetry (Coach House
Press, 2001), A World of Poetry (A World of Poetry
Press, 1976), In Memoriam Allen Ginsberg (Wright
State University Press, 1997), Battery: Live at Naropa
1974-2002 (2003), a live CD anthology by Anne Waldman;
and “Rattle Up a Deer”: Bernadette Mayer and
Anne Waldman Live at Penny Lane (2003); and Views,
a collaborative work with artists and poets Tree Bernstein,
Darrin Daniel, and Laura Wright (Tree House Press, 2002).
In 2001, he guest-edited an edition of "The Arts
Paper" on the history of Boulder poetry.
He has lectured at the University of Colorado (Boulder),
Metropolitan State College (Denver), and Naropa University
(Boulder).
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He has performed widely, incorporating the use of projected
slides, music, American Sign Language, and other performers
in both the U.S. and abroad, and has performed live with the
rave band burste and appeared as The Conductor in Mary Kite’s
adaptation of Peter Greenaway’s “Water Plays.”
His Dangerous And Difficult Art Productions presented over two
dozen free art events in Boulder, Denver, and Taos between January
1995 and January 2000. With an arts grant from the Neodata Endowment
in 1998, he produced a week-long Stan Brakhage Film Festival,
which was chosen as Westword magazine's "Art-Film Festival
of the Year." He has also produced large-scale, high-budget
art events such as the "12th Night" celebration for
the Arts and Humanities Assembly of Boulder in 2000.
He has produced several cable TV documentaries, including "The
Task" (on the poet Jack Collom); a three-night retrospective
on the films of Stan Brakhage, featuring an original two-hour
interview with filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Joel Haertling that
was nominated for a Community Service Award (2001); a reading
on the occasion of the publication of Philip Whalen's selected
poems, and "Uncaged," a performance of the words and
music of John Cage, featuring Anne Waldman and four musicians.
He is presently a producer and editor at Sounds True, an audio
book publisher in Louisville, Colorado, where he has edited,
among others, Robert Thurman, Robert Anton Wilson, and Thich
Nhat Hanh. He has two children—Christopher of Somerville,
Massachusetts, and Maelle of Boulder, Colorado—and lives
with Max, the world's largest cat.
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