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My first attempt at experimental, risk-taking, innovative or "experiskinno" poetry--"The World's Loudest Sound Poem"
                                                                   
                                       


My second "World's Loudest Sound Poem."


Actually,  as the picture shows, several hundred came.


Poet-friends and I considered these two events, the first in 1969 and the second in 1970, a huge success because of  the extensive
national newspaper, radio and TV coverage.  Reporters from all the media used to wait outside my classroom door in order to get
an interview.

Afterwards, I started writing visual and lanuage-centred poems which have been published in a number of collections (see Books)
and anthologies as well as in these periodicals: Alabama Dogshoe Moustache, Berkeley Horse,  Borderlines, Industrial Sabotage,
Konkret, Krax,  Lost and Found Times, Open Letter, Rampike, RAW NerVZ  and The Wilson Quaterly.

Some of the visual poems were also shown in galleries in California and New York.  A few of my haiku were turned into visual
poems through flash animation by Jonathan Aitken. Avisual haiku was put to music by the group The Meltdown Incentive.

    
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