Born 1936, independent questioning child with visual art talent which became the focus of parents and teachers.  In 1952, age sixteen, my imagination was excited by modern art.  I attended Rhode Island School of Design, dropping out after a year, began to write notes in pocket notebooks to understand life, one day creating an abstract theater piece in a notebook.  I then wrote short plays, turning away from my original direction in visual art. 

First literary creations were avant-garde plays and prose creations.  I then wrote "poetry," experimenting with form,

creating a few left hand margin free verse forms, but most creations were formed with uneven margins, mid-page.
 
My direction was to create literary forms which would be natural to each word creation without the restrictions of  "poetry" or traditional verse forms.  I rejected any rule of creation to free my imagination for inventing any form.  This was encouraged by modern visual art, jazz and classical music, as well as Seventies Off-Off Broadway theater in NYC.

First move away from the left hand margin with "poetry" was a short word creation with uneven margins set in the middle of the page.  Next, I placed words, phrases and blocks of words in the whole page space.  I moved on to creations with the far right hand margin, word creations with lines moving across the horizontal page.  Then, I created spacing lines wider apart than normal.  Continuing along that line I filled the whole page with words and phrases spaced wider than normal between lines, words, phrases and word blocks, which I termed 'designing the page.'  The visual aspect of space of the page  began to play a role in word creations.  I also worked with serial pieces to be framed for wall display.  I followed with increased size words, phrases and word blocks, on large size sheets for wall display, moving away from book form, continuing with the visual aspect.  At present, I am creating with large sized single words on large sized sheets for wall display reading which cannot be presented in book form.

During a work day my creative direction is a free improvising search for subject matter and form.  I work like a Beagle dog searching for a scent.  I write without knowing subject or form a creation will take, allowing my mind to roam as freely as humanly possible. I think, I believe, I work within, am held within, the creative source, seeking creation.

The revolution of modern visual art allowed my imagination to freely create word forms not restricted by traditional "poetry" and verse forms.  My young mind was 'inflamed' by modern art.  I do not think "poetry" expresses the new human view of the world.  We, humanity, lives in a new world.

Visual Art influences - Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, etc.   Music influences - John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton; Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Charles Ives, Edgar Varese, John Cage, Steve Reich, etc.  Literary influences - Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Dick Higgins, Bern Porter; Seventies NYC Off-Off Broadway theater, etc.