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A. D. Winans is an award winning native San Francisco poet and writer. His poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in over 2000 literary magazines, journals, newspapers and anthologies including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He was friends with Charles Bukowski and Beat Poets Bob Kaufman and Jack Micheline, and appeared in the Kaufman documentary film, When I Die I Won't Stay Dead, that premiered at the 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival. He is the author of over 65 books and chapbook of poetry and prose and edited and published the acclaimed Second Coming Magazaine/Press from 1972 through 1989. In 2002 a song poem of his was set to music by the pulitzer prize winning composer Williams Bolcom and performed at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN National Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature. In 2009 he was presented with a PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was the recipient of a Kathy Acker award in poetry and publishing. He continues to live in San Francisco, California.
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