Influences

• I have been influenced largely by poets like Arthur Rimbaud, Walt Whitman, Federico Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Maykovsky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Galway Kinnell, to name but a few, with respect to my poetry.

  In terms of playwriting, my major influences are Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Oscar Wilde,Samuel Beckett, to name but a few.

Favorite Books

• "Crime and Punishment," Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  "Ulysses," James Joyce
  "Dead Souls," Gogol
  "The Trial," Franz Kafka
  "Thus Spake Zarathustra," Friedrich Nietzsche
  "Free Lunch," David Cay Johnston
  "Howl," Allen Ginsberg
  "Lunch Poems," Frank O'Hara
  "The Awakening," Kate Chopin
  "Naked Lunch," William Burroughs
  "Waiting for Godot," Samuel Beckett
  "Season in Hell," Arthur Rimbaud
  "Duino Elegies," Rainer Maria Rilke
  "Song of Myself," Walt Whitman
  "Voyages," Hart Crane
  "The Bedbug," Vladimir Mayakovsky
  anything by Garcia Lorca
  and the list goes on...

Favorite Authors

• James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dante, William Butler Yeats, Arthur Rimbaud, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, Jean Genet, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Frank O'Hara, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Galway Kinnell, J.M. Coetzee, Kate Chopin.

What I'm Reading

• "Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett: A Centenary Celebration," edited by James and Elizabeth Knowlson (biographia about Samuel Beckett)

Web Links

• my blog
• PEN American Center blogs
• New York Quarterly
• Current TV
• The Huffington Post
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