Bill Vartnaw's Reading Interests
Influences
H. D., Walt Whitman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, Diane di Prima, John Keats, David Bromige, Carol Lee Sanchez, David Meltzer, Paula Gunn Allen, George Oppen, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Judy Grahn, Michael McClure, Gregory Corso, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, Gary Snyder, Kathleen Raine, Robert Creeley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Michael Palmer, Al Young, Ishmael Reed, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Ovid, Shakespeare, Pound, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Yeats, Eliot, Williams, Shelley, Stevens, etc.
Bill Vartnaw’s Bookmarks
About Bill
My first poem was published in Paper Pudding in 1972, a Sonoma County literary magazine. Moved to San Francisco in 1973, was one of the original members of the Bay Area Poets Coalition in 1974 and helped create their Summer Solstice & Autumn Equinox...
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Causes Bill Vartnaw Supports
Amnesty International, KPFA






