900 Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista, CA 91910, USA
Southwestern Community College
900 Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista, CA 91910, USA
Southwestern Community College
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1998
Michael Rigsby Revere, formerly Michael Darrell Rigsby, was born on July 26, 1951, in East Point, Georgia, United States. He is the son of Alton and Margaret (Pope) Dean. Growing up in a military family, he lived in six states and Europe during the first twelve years of his life.
Revere attended Southwestern Community College.
Revere dropped out of high school and joined the army at seventeen to avoid being sent to jail. Six months later he was discharged for "unsuppressible nomadic tendencies." Between 1969 and 1976 Revere hitch-hiked across the U.S. 24 times.
As of 1982, Revere worked as a cook. During that time he also started his career as a poet and writer. He was publishing a fair number of poems in local journals. It was in Chapel Hill in the mid-1970s that he developed a reputation as a "street poet."
While living in North Carolina, Revere conducted writing workshops at the North Carolina Prison for Women, the Federal Correctional Institute, the Carrboro Arts School, and the Wildflower Kitchen. The Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Durham, and Roxboro newspapers have all featured or reviewed his work.
During his career, Revere also worked as a musician and music educator (drums). He worked as a roofer and labourer as well.
Currently, Revere works as a freelance poet and writer, living in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Revere is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa.
Revere had been married three times. His alcoholism ended his first marriage. With his second wife, Theresa, he lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Divorced from Theresa, Revere left North Carolina and travelled west, to Washington and Oregon. There he married for the third time to Judy Clouse. The couple moved to Montana in 1980. They had two children, Sadie and Andrew. In 1984, Revere and his family moved to Eugene, Oregon, where they lived until 1992. In 1992, they moved to Columbia, South Carolina. After ten months there, they moved to Cullowhee, North Carolina.
