In the 1980s, I sold a few thousand poetry chapbooks, and two novels, Alias Art Mann (1985) and The Glue Story (1990), published by the iconic beat publisher, Cherry Valley Editions. Many people remember me stumping around the MD-DC area with a "Poems for Sale" sign on my back. I split my time between poetry and song-writing for my punk rock band, The Submensas. The band has recently reformed and is currently performing gigs in the Baltimore-Washington area. Life took hold of me for about a decade; I opened a chess store in downtown Baltimore and didn't write much until the early 2000s. However, I returned to writing with a vengeance and quickly published 5 short stories and three novels, The Ghost Writer, The Ghost Cop and The Levee. Writing led me to become an English teacher, and...
In the 1980s, I sold a few thousand poetry chapbooks, and two novels, Alias Art Mann (1985) and The Glue Story (1990), published by the iconic beat publisher, Cherry Valley Editions. Many people remember me stumping around the MD-DC area with a "Poems for Sale" sign on my back. I split my time between poetry and song-writing for my punk rock band, The Submensas. The band has recently reformed and is currently performing gigs in the Baltimore-Washington area. Life took hold of me for about a decade; I opened a chess store in downtown Baltimore and didn't write much until the early 2000s. However, I returned to writing with a vengeance and quickly published 5 short stories and three novels, The Ghost Writer, The Ghost Cop and The Levee. Writing led me to become an English teacher, and becoming an English teacher led me into the world of drama, as I became the theater director for my high school. In this capacity, I produced 14 productions (7 musicals and 7 plays) before stepping down to pursue my own works. I have since staged five of my own plays and am slated for a two-week run of my sixth full-length play called 1980 at Baltimore Theatre Project in June 2020.