Taught creative writing at UCSB, at UC Berkeley, USC,  and the University of Provence. Books include Sorrow and Hope, Breaking Bread, The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg, Saving Grace, Hands Across the Earth, The Flower Vendor, Paper Song, Aztec Birth, The Body Electric Journal, The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson, Ginsberg: On Tibetan Buddhism, Mantras, Drugs, The Bullet Has His Face in the Dove of his Blood, Witness, and Falling Short (forthcoming).  Poems are scattered in small magazines:  Prairie Schooner, Floricanto, The American Journal of Poetry, Hambone, Chelsea, River Styx) and anthologies (El Tecolote, Overthrowing Capitalism, The Asian Writer, Naropa Anthology), across the America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.  Awards from the National Endowment, the Fulbright Commission, et al.