I recite with percussion instruments. Thus I am listed in the Directory of American Poets and Fictions Writers as a PF, performance poet. Not all poems are recited with instruments. I just retired from the San francisco Unified School District as a teacher, and now write full time. What a pleasure. I have not come out of the closet yet as a poet. None of the academic teachers at the schools I taught at ever knew I was a poet. I hated the academic mask I had to wear to stay under the radar. But now I'm free. I am looking for a publisher and or agent to publish my first book of poems entitled "First Snows Of Hunger".
The five poems I submit is 1) Ingenious Technology 2) Thirty Year Tunnels 3) Elegy For My Father 4) From Tales On The Lower East Side 1973 & 5) Coming Out Of The Fogg