How he first got interested in poetry was by listening to spoken word recordings of Jim Morrison as a teenager. It inspired him to write and perform. Writing and performing poems are a therapeutic release for him. Some influences are Charles Baudelaire, Jim Morrison and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
After moving from Boston to Seattle in the Fall of 1991, he wanted to make friends by publishing a free 30-35 page xeroxed art & literary zine called The Arm's Extent. It had a logo of a "metaphysical" arm reaching out to its readers on every cover. The Arm's Extent's motto w more...