New Release from Bottle of Smoke Press:A.D. Winans – In the Dead Hours of Dawn
Poetry, 32 pages. 8 1/2″ x 11 1/4″. A new book of poems by award winning poet A.D. Winans consists of poems not previously published …{read more}
6 Poems by A.D. Winans
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POEM FOR RUTH WEISS
she grooves with time
day time, night time
be bop jazz time
dances with timeless time
all rhythm no rhyme
birds in flight flap their wings
copulate with the wind
a magician’s illusion where
time and …{read more}
DANCING WITH WORDS
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There are poets who like
To dance with words
Dance for favors and illusionary
Poetry careers
But dancing for an audience
Isn’t like feeling the rhythm
That rubs up against the soul
Odetta, Buffy Saint-Marie
Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie,
Pete …{read more}
San Francisco Poems by A.D. Winans
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A.D. Winans’ new 190-page poetry collection, San Francisco Poems, has been published by Little Red Tree Publishing, of New Haven, CT.
A. D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet, writer and photographer. His poetry, prose, book reviews, and …{read more}
A.D. Winans – San Francisco Poems Book Launch! July 22, 2012
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A.D. Winans founded the important Second Coming Press in San Francisco back in the 1970s, publishing some of the best Beat poets alongside crucial street and underground poets of the time. All along, his own work has been politically engaged …{read more}
Looking Back
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When I was 18
I was on a troop train heading
for basic training when
we stopped to take on water
or whatever it is trains stop for
and after relieving myself
I came out of the men’s room when
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A.D. Winans on A.D. Winans
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I was born in San Francisco, and have lived here almost my entire life. I was born at home, premature. My mother said the doctor told her I would not live a long life. Now I’m 71 and the doctor …{read more}
A.D. Winans: 10 Poems
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NORTH BEACH YUPPIE BAR
Hard to believe Richard Brautigan
Jack Spicer and other Beats drank here
As I sit and watch two business men
Playing liar’s dice at Gino and Carlo’s Bar
In the heart of North Beach
Their faces …{read more}
A. D. Winans Looks Back at the Beat Generation
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Generally speaking, counter-culture describes the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group or subculture in conflict with those of the cultural mainstream of the day, a visible phenomenon that reaches critical mass and persists for some time.
The …{read more}
Ted Joans Lives! A Tribute
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When Charlie Parker died, Ted Joans coined the phrase ‘BIRD LIVES’ and wrote it in chalk or charcoal on walls. Laura Corsiglia suggests that we remember Ted in the same way:
GRAB SOME SIDEWALK CHALK OR CHARCOAL AND WRITE “TED …{read more}
A.D. Winans Remembers Bob Kaufman
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Bob Kaufman, known in France as the American Rimbaud, was one of the original Beat poets to come out of the Fifties. He is rightfully regarded as one of the most influential black poets of his era, but his poetry …{read more}
America
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Drummed out of the infantry of death
I came back to you carrying the
Poems of my soul
Opened the door of life
And found only death inside
America
I have read the state of the union
And listened to …{read more}
A Call to Poets
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Poets unite
Forget about a career
In poetry
And concentrate on the
Poem
Quit turning out
Factory assembly
Line poems
Quit trying to imitate
Bukowski.
Poets unite
Listen to your brothers
And sisters
Quit being the first poet
To read …{read more}