As a mature "gypsy" poet modernizing literature with a wandering imagination, the technical skills of a media artist, and the authority of a scholar, I'm either consummately borderline or on the front line. A doctorate in creative writing, I realize, provides the credentials to validate freeform interdisciplinary experimentation while vetting with discriminating tastes. It is the best of both worlds or, to put it more accurately, multiple artistic worlds. A career as the performance poet through the 1980s also educated me in the benefits of crossing checkpoints as a means of distribution. At that time, I chose radio instead of publishing poems in books. I have the distinction of coining the term “performance poetry” back then while publicizing my gigs as a speaking vocalist with several bands. I still receive crossover critical support, awards, and audiences. I continue to work with audio poetry expanding my fan base through digital distribution on iTunes and other numerous outlets reaching new generations. Print poetics, too, has revitalized on digital media reaching out to larger audiences and has become a significant part of my most recent literary art, audio, and visual production. The Internet is my current synthesizer of aesthetic disciplines and mediums.

Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street (Slough Press, 2006), Polish Gypsy With Ghost (Shinebone Press, 1998), Slow Paradise (Shinebone Press, 1998), Snatches of the Visible Unreal (Back Yard Press, 1990)

Hispanic American Literature Encyclopedia (Facts On File, 2007)

Art Mag 29, Karawane, Poetry Repair Shop

Borders Books - Houston, TX (2008), Polish American Historical Association, Annual Meeting - Washington, DC (2008), Cafe Krzystofore, Krakow, Poland (2004), Thirteen Donuts Radio Drama, KRVS-FM (2000), Audio: Intellectual Love (Perfection Productions) (1990), KUT-FM Radio, Austin, Texas (1986), Maple Leaf Club, New Orleans (1984), Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute (1983), Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin (1977)