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Peter Coyote
Actor, author, narrator, journalist, and politically engaged

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Sleeping Where I Fall reprinted

Sep.19.2009

Pleased to announce that this AUgust, Counterpoint Press in Berkeley, California released a new edition (new Cover, and 25 page Postscript) of Sleeping WHere I Fall, celebrating ten consecutive years in print. The book made the Chronicle best-sellers list for August.

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.2004

When Supporting Only One Presidential Candidate Just Isn't Enough

People have questioned how I can publicly support candidates who are running against each other. I do this because supporting a candidate influences civic life in broader ways than simply trying to pick a winner. In a country where much of the mass media declare as legitimate only the landscape between the center and the right, supporting two candidates who represent the center and...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2004

New Buffalo: Journals from a Taos Commune (by Arthur Kopecky) Foreword

Peter Coyote wrote the foreword for this book on New Buffalo, one of the most successful of the collective farms that dotted the country in the 1960s and 1970s. Arthur Kopecky’s journals take us back to that era as he and his comrades wend their way to the area near Taos, New Mexico, where they encounter magic, wisdom, a mix of people, the Peyote Church, planting, and hard winters...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.27.2003

Celebrity Nation

[The] soft taboo against celebrities expressing political opinions leads me to speculate why the intellectual component of their lives has been deemed so unsuitable for public consumption. Read the full column here.

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2002

September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero (edited by Jeff Meyers)

Peter Coyote contributed to this anthology edited by Seattle poet and writer Jeff Meyers. The events of September 11th, 2001, their myriad repercussions, and varied and often contradictory responses to them have inspired this collection of West Coast writers’ responses to the terrorist acts. Among the many contributors besides Coyote are: Alice Walker, Ken Kesey, Lawrence...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.2001

The Whole World's Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s (edited by Robert Schildgen)

Photojournalism and critical commentary come together in The Whole World’s Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s, an oversized volume part history, part tribute bearing witness to the protests and the upheavals that began in the socially engaged and politically volatile San Francisco Bay Area. Dramatic duotone photographs of Playboy bunnies, Black...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.2000

Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century (edited by Marianne Williamson)

Peter Coyote contributed an essay to this collection. It was edited by Marianne Williamson, who posed the question to nearly forty of her well-known contemporaries, inviting them to open their imaginations to all the possibilities that could exist.

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PUBLISHED: May.01.1999

Sleeping Where I Fall

Out of the 1960s counterculture explosion came a radical street group called the Diggers who became the heart and soul of the Haight-Ashbury experience. Among its founders was Peter Coyote who has taken his memoirs of this anarchic and psychedelic era and woven them into a collection of stories from his life in San Francisco to communes and gypsy years on the road becoming part of...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1998

What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop (edited by Gary Gach)

Peter Coyote wrote the foreword and contributed to this anthology of modern, mindful poetry on Western Buddhism. Edited by Gary Gach, it features selections from more than 125 authors.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1998

Hey Lew (edited by Magda Cregg)

Peter Coyote contributed to this homage to Beat poet Lew Welch, friend of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Cassidy, to name a few. Edited by Magda Cregg, it's a collection of essays, poems, songs, photographs, drawings, and memories from fifty of the people who loved him best. Other contributors are Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Huey Lewis, Joanne Kyger, Robert Creeley, and Margo Patterson...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1996

A Free Library in This City: The Illustrated History of the San Francisco Public Library (by Peter Booth Wiley)

Peter Coyote’s contribution to this illustrated history of San Francisco Public Library is called “Time to Be Savored Not Saved.” The book was researched and written by Peter Booth Wiley. As a collaborative publishing enterprise, it united writers and illustrators in public celebration of the city’s rich artistic heritage. The book includes specially commissioned essays on...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.1995

Strange Attraction: The Best of Ten Years of Zyzzyva (edited by Howard Junker)

Peter Coyote's essay, "Carla's Story," is featured in this collection.

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.1990

Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (by Emmett Grogan) Introduction

Peter Coyote wrote the introduction to this memorable tale of Emmett Grogan and the Diggers, the irreverent urban guerrillas and masters of street theater who made San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury a home. For anyone who thinks those were days only of peace, love, and flower power, “Ringolevio” will be a revelation, as it evokes the gritty urban sensibility that supplied backbone to...

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Apr.28.2010 - 5:19 pm

FDR's Economic Vision Still Unfulfilled

(Here's the beginning of an opinion piece I wrote that AOL News posted earlier this month. You can read the rest here.) "We cannot be content, no matter how high that...

Apr.22.2008 - 4:54 pm

A Timid Entry into the Red Room

I have not been using Red Room in any capacity. I realized that at the Commonwealth Club event yesterday listening to fellow authors, who talked about self-publishing articles and...

Jan.29.2008 - 11:26 am

Patry Francis and the little site that could

This morning I sent out a mailing to the 4 or 500 people who read my political rants and forwards, only this morning, I urged them to buy Patry's novel as a way of helping...

Dec.03.2007 - 5:54 pm

1,000 Miles Back in Time

The Grateful Dead sent me and Kesey’s people and a couple of Hells Angels and a couple more Diggers to London to see the Beatles and check them out, to see if they were as...

Comments from Peter

Sep.19.2009 - 12:47 pm

In response to: Sleeping Where I Fall reprinted

Learn to release the CAPS KEY PEter

You need to slow down your typing and fully release the CAP key, Peter. Peter

Apr.26.2008 - 8:41 pm

In response to: A Timid Entry into the Red Room

empowering fish

I don't mind empowering the fish at all...

Apr.23.2008 - 11:50 am

In response to: A Timid Entry into the Red Room

Thank you so much.

What a wonderfully useful suggestion. Thank you very much. peter

Apr.23.2008 - 11:49 am

In response to: A Timid Entry into the Red Room

Point taken---

Point taken, Belle. The point (however muddy) was not to condemn the internet, but perhaps to look at a shadow side...

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Poem: Paris Moment II

Poem: Paris Moment

Poem: On the Anniversary of my Father's Death

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Apr.17.1998

Published by Salon.com

Actor Peter Coyote’s autobiography of those years [1965 through 1975], “Sleeping Where I Fall,” falls into the [bittersweet] category, fondly reminiscing about long-lost loved...

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Video: The Commonwealth Club Panel on redroom.com - Peter Coyote

Video: Building Community for Writers (Preview)

Video: How to Save the World - Trailer

About Peter

After graduating from Grinnell College with a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 1964, and despite having been accepted at the prestigious Writer’s Workshops in Iowa, Coyote moved to the West Coast to pursue a master’s degree in creative writing at...

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Causes Peter Coyote Supports

The Global Security Institute, Native Sovereignty Issues, Wild Earth( Natural Corridors Program),

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Peter CoyoteActor, author, narrator, journalist, and politically engaged

Latest News & Events

Sleeping Where I Fall reprinted

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Peter's Latest Blogs

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Writing

Published Reviews

Audio & Video

About Peter

Causes Peter Coyote Supports

Peter Coyote
Actor, author, narrator, journalist, and politically engaged