Lives in Oakland, CA
Born 1937, Rochester, NY
Poet/Writer/Former Musician
As a poet (& musician) the need to express is to always challenge & affirm boundaries; to break them down as well as build them up, differently. As a poet (& musician) the limits of each language to express beyond what's expressible is a profound challenge.
1955 University of California, Los Angeles
1954 Los Angeles City College
1977-2007 Professor of Undergraduate Humanities and Graduate Poetics, New College of California
2007 David's Copy: Selected Poems (edited by Michael Rothenberg). New York, NY: Penguin
2006 San Francisco Beat: Talking With the Poets. San Francisco, CA: City Lights
2005 Beat Thing. Albuquerque, NM: La Alameda Press
2000 No Eyes: Lester Young. Boston, MA: Black Sparrow Press
2007 Haas Creative Work Fund Grant (with Michael Rothenberg)
2006 Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Award for Beat Thing
1974 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Literature
