User:A. D. Winans

A. D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet, writer and photographer. In 1954 he returned home from Panama to become part of the North Beach Beat era. He graduated from San Franisco State University in 1962 and briefly enrolled in the San Francisco State creative writing program. He was friends with the late Jack Micheline, Bob Kaufman and Charles Bukowski.

His poetry, prose, short stories and book reviews have appeared in over 1,500 literary journals and anthologies. He is the author of 45 books and chapbooks of poetry and prose, and his work has been translated into nine languages.

He has read his work with Neeli Cherkovski, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Herbert Gold, Bob Kaufman, Joanne Kyger, David Meltzer, Gene Ruggles, Ruth Weiss, Al Young and other noted poets.

In 2005 a song poem of his was performed at Tully Hall, NYC. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literture.

He has been awarded numerous writing assistance, editing and publishing grants from the NEA, the California Arts Council, PEN, The Writer's Guild, and the Academy of American Poets.

He edited and published Second Coming Magazine and Press for 17 years. During this time he produced the Second Coming Poets and Music Festival (1980), honoring the poet Josephine Miles and the Blues legend, John Lee Hooker.

His archives are at Brown Univesity.

Further information can be obtained at his web site: adwinans.mysite.com