Username: crazycloud
Gender: Male
Member since: February 13, 2008
Birthday: December 9, 1959

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One could say I have had a poet's life, with a lot of accident involved. I'm writing poetry in obscurity. Right now I'm sitting a booth in the Paradise Bakery chain restaurant in Boulder CO. Coffeehouses in Boulder are mostly really ghastly with snotty air headed very wealthy people... outdoorsy bums in school basically. I'm full of ideas and am always generous as I can be. I was born in a very urban East Coast city, and parents left with me in the mid 60s when I was 3 as the storm clouds of the riots were coming on. Lived in a White Flight suburb for awhile after that until my father was denied a tenure for being against the Vietnam War, and then we moved to a college town all the way up on the Canadian Border where I went to High School, and I became a country boy. Went to Bard College and flunked out of there after two years in 1980 because I was sensitive poetic sort of kid in the chaos of that school in that era. Turned out many people I went to school with would die of AIDs. I was a skinny shy heterosexual kid and I actually left the school still a virgin and doing no more than drinking very heavily, which did get me into some trouble anyway, but never at risk of AIDs. Years later a classmate of mine who was in an art class with me and who became a very well known artist did a eulogy in San Francisco for people he had known who had died of AIDs. I lived in San Francisco for 13 years, met the longest term girlfriend I've had in '94. When she got a job in Delaware in 2000, I stayed in San Francisco for a year holding on to the apartment, and then moved out to Delaware, where she bought a nice little red brick house. When we broke up I moved to Boulder. I've studied writing in workshops with several very well known writers. I've always been lucky when it comes to poetry and being in the right place at the right time, until, as far as I can tell now, but I could be wrong. In any case, I have finally finished books of poetry here, so maybe it has been good. Two books I've finished after two years, going out to contests just this Spring...

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I've been writing so much in the past two years I've forgetten about interests. I used to lovenature and mountains, which I escaped to when I lived in the Haight St. neighborhood in S.F. in the 90s, but I've found myself doubting the value in going up there into the wilderness after seeing what it does to the people in the state of Colorado. I've come to conclude that one cannot combine fully intellect and grace, with muscle and athletic goals and therefore with the physical effort it takes to go out into nature.

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