Joe Safdie has lived, mostly chronologically, in Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Venice Beach, Boulder, San Francisco, Bolinas, Olomouc, Prague, Seattle and now in Encinitas, where he writes from a small office with a window that looks out over a cheramoya tree, a lantana plant, and a lemon tree. Five chapbooks appeared between 1974 and 2006; other poems, essays and reviews are floating about in the virtual universe.