Career
Born in the United States, where he worked as a journalist, he settled in Toronto, Ontario in 1968. In Toronto he has owned and operated two antiquarian bookshops, established The Folks Upstairs Press and taught English as a second language (English as Second Language) to students and professionals from Japan and South of Korea. His poetry and essays have appeared in Canadian Author & Bookman, Catalyst (United States of America), North York Arts Council News, Pierian Spring, Poetry Toronto, Rolling Stone (United States of America), Midway Review (United States of America), Poetry West.L.U., Tower, West Coast Review, Watchwords, Waterways (United States of America) and many other periodicals.
1983:The Toronto Collection, An Anthology of the New Toronto Poets, edited by Leslie Nutting, Manoeuvres Press,,
1984:Other Channels, An Anthology of New Canadian Poetry, edited by Shaunt Basmajian & Jones, League of Canadian Poets Associates.