Interests: long walks on the beach, writing, rainbows, reading, editing my literary journals, poems, essays, buying vinyl, guitar playing, teaching, Queen, The Jam, Beach Boys, The Who, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Prince, Schubert, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Joan Armatrading, The Cult, Gram Parsons, A Flock of Seagulls, A Tribe Called Quest, ABBA, AC/DC, The Cars, Velvet Undergound, Archie Shepp, Aretha Franklin, Bad Brains, The Bangles, Beck, Bessie Smith, Bettie Serveert, Big Star, Bill Frissell, Beethoven, Husker Du, Bruce Springsteen, The Byrds, Charlie Parker, The Comedian Harmonists, Cornershop, De La Soul, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Echo & the Bunnymen, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliott Smith, Erik B. and Rakim, The Faces, Fats Waller, Minutemen, Foo Fighters, Foreigner, Frank Sinatra, Gary Numan, Gillian Welch, Willie Nelson, Gorillaz, Guns n Roses, Iggy & the Stooges, Iron and Wine, Isley Brothers, Jaco Pastorious, James Brown, Jane's Addiction, The Jerky Boys, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Josh Rouse, The Kinks, LL Cool J, Magnetic Fields, Marvin Gaye, Melvins, Missing Persons, Modest Mouse, Motley Crue, Nick Drake, Perez Prado, Public Enemy, REM, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Replacements, Sarah Vaughn, Schooly D, The Shins, Shonen Knife, Paul Simon, Wire, Yes, Wrenns, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wire, Wilco, Television, White Stripes, Spring and All, Paris Spleen, The Wasteland, Walt Whitman, Williams Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, Fernando Pessoa, Philip Lopate, Paul Celan, William Butler Yeats, Amiri Baraka, Charles, Baudelaire, Cezar Vallelo, Federico Garcia Lorca, John Giorno, Sharon Olds, Shakespeare, Anne Carson, Kenneth Koch, Alice Fulton, Tomaz Salamun, Charles Simic, Robert Bly, Spalding Gray, Philip Roth, Wallace Stevens, Stephen Dunn, Philip Levine, Galway Kinnell, Joan Didion, Joe Brainard, Czeslaw Milosz, Tomaz Salamun, Anne Waldman, David Lehman, James Tate, Stephen Dunn, John Keats, WB Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Troubadour poets, Sestinas, Lewis Hyde, Albert Goldbard, Mark Halliday, William Empson, Kenneth Burke, Francis Ponge, Rene Char, Denis Donoghue, David Trinidad, Roland Barthes, Matthew Arnold, Chuck Klosterman, FT Marinetti, Vladimir Nabakov, Ned Rorem, Susan Sontag, Caddyshack, Three Amigos, Goodfellas, Citizen Kane, Fargo, Vertigo