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Richard
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BIO
Richard Weekley was born in Grand Junction, Colorado in 1945. Cofounder/coeditor of Volume Number Magazine from
1983-2000, he won the Teacher of the Year Award for teaching Creative Writing in the William S. Hart Union High School
District in Los Angeles County in 1999. He retired after forty years in 2007 and now devotes his time to writing and his
publishing company, Los Angeles Poets’ Press. The Literary Review, The MacGuffin, The Midwest Quarterly, Poetry LA,
Queen's Quarterly, Wisconsin Review, West Coast Review, Bitterroot, CQ, Crosscurrents and Pudding are a sampling
of the journals that have published his poetry. He is listed in A Directory of American Poets and Writers compiled by
Poets & Writers, Inc., and the winner of various prizes including Black Bear Publication's International Chapbook Competition.
He was a visiting artist at Mount Saint Mary's College and California Institute of the Arts, as well as for many coffee houses,
literary groups and colleges. He’s been a guest on several AM and FM radio programs. Although published internationally
in four countries, Richard continues to counsel his dog Bubba not to bark at unseen skateboarders and himself not to make
shopping lists for insect repellent or toilet paper during zazen. Richard’s Zen teacher tells him: “To study Zen is to study
the self -- to study the self is to forget the self.”
"Richard Weekley is a buddha with sax in hand; his tender never-ending
tune will help us heal our lives." -- Peter Levitt, Finger Painting on the Moon. "Richard Weekley is a dynamic communicator. His performance brings to life poems that already sing on the page;
we are held spellbound by words that bring us into the very fabric of life, from earth to spirit, man to woman and child, god, images
embroidered by every imaginable perception. Poetry that is so alive--makes us alive, and we leave a Weekley reading uplifted,
ready to take on the world." -- Alice Pero, Moonday Poetry Reading Series Coordinator PUBLICATIONS DVD “I Should Have Told You of My Life” the poetry of Richard Weekley read by Richard and Friends J. W. Davies Productions 2007 and Graffiti Verite 6, The Odyssey: Poets, Passion & Poetry, a Bob Bryan Film, available on DVD through Netflix.com, 2006Pastiche, Los Angeles Poets' Press, 2006, $6.00 The Man Who Lost His Voice and Other Poems, Los Angeles Poets' Press, 2005, $6.00 Gratitude, Los Angeles Poets' Press, 2004 100 Doors, Los Angeles Poets' Press, 2003 The Scrubwoman, Los Angeles Poets' Press, 2001 These Things Happen, The Inevitable Press, 1997, 1999 Small Diligences, Los Angeles Poets' Press, 1988 (out of print) Not the Subject of Cocktail Parties, Black Bear Publications, 1986 Winner International Chapbook Competition Little Pianos—And Other Poems from Europe, Star Garden Poets Cooperative, 1982 Mayan Night, Domina Books, 1981 The Adventures of Chet Blake—Plastic Man (Prose), Crescent Publications, 1975 All
in print items sell for $5.00 + shipping and handling except the 2005 and 2006 publications COLLABORATIONS Vol. No. (Volume Number Magazine), Los Angeles Poets Press, back issues), 1983-2000 |
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