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A. D. Winans
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A. D. Winans was born in San Francisco and graduated from San Francisco State University.He returned from Panama in 1958 to become part of the Beat and post-Beat era.He is the author of 45 books and chapbooks of poetry and prose including North Beach Poems, The Holy Grail: The Charles Bukowski Second Coming Revolution, North Beach Revisited, This Land Is Not My Land and The Wrong Side Of Town.For seventeen years he edited and published Second Coming Magazine/Press.He worked for the San Francisco Art Commission (1975-80), during which time he produced the Second Coming 1980 Poets and Music Festival, honoring the late poet Josephine Miles and the late blues musician John Lee Hooker.He has received past editor and publishing grants from the NEA and the California Arts Council, and writer assistance grants from PEN and the Academy of American Poets.In 1983 he was awarded a San Francisco Arts and Letters Foundation cash award for his contribution to small press literature.In 2006 he was awarded a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Achievement Award for his book of poems, This Land Is Not My Land, published by Presa Press.
His poetry, prose, essays and book reviews have appeared in over a thousand literary magazines and anthologies, including City Lights Journal, Poetry Australia, the New York Quarterly, Beat Scene, Beatitude, Rattle, The Smith, the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth Press), and Inside the Outside, Presa Press.His poetry has been translated into nine languages.In 2004 a song poem of his was performed at Tully Hall, New York City.
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