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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Andover , MA

Massachusetts US

Email:

jasonotoolemba@gmail.com

Bio:

Jason O’Toole is the 6th Poet Laureate of North Andover, Massachusetts. He is co-founder and judge of the Anne Bradstreet Poetry Contest. He is a board member of the Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco and a hospital administrator in the Boston area.

Jason was the vocalist for the 1980s NY Hardcore Punk band Life's Blood and continues to collaborate with musicians such as Alec. K. Redfearn Miro Snejdr (Herr Lounge Corps), and members of Siege. He earned his BA from Eugene Lang College and an MBA from St. Joseph's College of Maine.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

HD, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Creeley, Laura Albert (J.T. LeRoy), William Carlos Williams, W. B. Yeats, Jeanne Robert Foster, Delmore Schwartz, David Ignatow, Robert Lowell, William Lindsay Gresham, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., John Berryman, Arthur Rimbaud, H.P. Lovecraft, Ottessa Moshfegh, Margaret Atwood, Percy and Mary Shelley, T. S. Eliot, Robert Anton Wilson, William Gibson, Ken Kesey, Alfred Bester, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chinua Achebe, Stanley Diamond, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson, James Joyce, Philip K. Dick, Dan Speers, Robert Whelan, Karen M. Kline, Mark Bohrer

Twitter/X:

@JasonOToolePoet

Born in:

Andover, MA

Massachusetts

Raised in:

Albany, NY

New York

Website:

https://spearofstars.wordpress.com/ [2]

Prizes won:

2020 Rhysling Award Nomination

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Adults

At Risk Youth

Children

Disability

Homelessness

Illness/Wellness

LGBTQ

Mental Health

Naturalists/Environmentalists

Schools

Seniors