Richard Denner
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Richard Denner (born November 21, 1941) is an American poet associated with the Berkeley Street Poets and the Poets of the Pacific Northwest.
[edit] Biography
Denner was born in Santa Clara, California and raised in the Oakland Hills. In 1959, he enrolled in the University of California, but dropped out the following year, initially working in Moe's Books. Soon after, he founded the one-man printing operation, dPress, the backlists of which now contain some two hundred titles. In 1972, he returned to education, and received a BA in English and Philosophy at the University of Alaska.
The former proprietor of the Four Winds Bookstore in Ellensburg, Washington, Denner took up the practise of Vajrayna Buddhism. He returned to California in recent years, where he now functions as both poet and caregiver to his elderly mother.
[edit] Works
- Collected Poems:1961-2000 was published by Comrades Press in 2001.
- The Collected Books of Richard Denner: Volumes 1-12 are published by dPress.
