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I like wild women who drink straight shots
And lick their lips when flirting
I like demure women
Who look like librarians
And wear long dresses that touch the floor
But I’ve retired from the game although
Not of my own choosing
Forced to sit on the sidelines
And eyeball the show
As I watch a young woman walk by
With her orange blossom smell
A false promise lost in skipped heart beats
That plays tricks with my shadow
Trailing behind like an old junkyard dog
Walking behind his master
Hoping for table scraps
A.D. Winans was born in San Francisco and graduated from San Francisco State University. He returned
from Panama in 1958 to become part of the Beat and post-Beat era. He is the author of 45 books and chapbooks
of poetry and prose including North Beach Poems, The Holy Grail: The Charles Bukowski Second Coming Revolution,
North Beach Revisited, This Land Is Not My Land and The Wrong Side Of Town. For seventeen years he edited
and published Second Coming Magazine/Press. He worked for the San Francisco Art Commission (1975-80),
during which time he produced the Second Coming 1980 Poets and Music Festival, honoring the late poet
Josephine Miles and the late blues musician John Lee Hooker. He has received past editor and publishing
grants from the NEA and the California Arts Council, and writer assistance grants from PEN and the Academy
Winans was born in San Francisco and graduated from San Francisco State University.
He returned from Panama in 1958 to become part of the Beat and post-Beat era.
In 1983 he was awarded a San Francisco Arts and Letters Foundation cash award
for his contribution to small press literature. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN Josephine Miles Literary
Achievement Award for his book of poems, This Land Is Not My Land, published by Presa Press.
His poetry, prose, essays and book reviews have appeared in over a thousand literary magazines and
anthologies, including City Lights Journal, Poetry Australia, the New York Quarterly, Beat Scene,
Beatitude, Rattle, The Smith, the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press),
and Inside the Outside, Presa Press. His poetry has been translated into nine languages.
In 2004 a song poem of his was performed at Tully Hall, New York City. Such noted poets
and writers as Colin Wilson, Studs Terkel, James Purdy, Peter Coyote, Jack Hirschman,
and the late Jack Micheline and Charles Bukowski have praised his work.
In 2007 Presa Press published a book of his selected poems The Other Side Of Broadway:
Selected Poems 1965-2005 with a foreword by Jack Hirschman (San Francisco Poet Laureate).
He has worked at a variety of jobs, most recently with the U.S. Department of Education (Office for Civil Rights),
as an Equal Opportunity Specialist, investigating claims of discrimination against minorities, women, and the disabled.
He is a member of PEN, and has served on the Board of Directors of many arts organizations, including the now
defunct Committee of Small Press Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP). He is listed in The Gale Research
Contemporary American Authors and the Gale Research Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series.
His essay on the late Bob Kaufman was published in American Poetry Review and was republished
in January 2007 by the Writer’s Research Group. His archives and the archives of Second Coming Magazine
and Press are maintained at Brown University.
For more information visit his website: Web Site
Email
Email: A.D. Winans
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