Jack Spicer
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About
Poet associated with the San Francisco Renaissance and known for My Vocabulary Did This to Me, a 2009 collection that earned the American Book Award for poetry. He is also known for After Lorca.
Before Fame
He attended the University of Redlands and the University of California, Berkeley.
Trivia
He taught a workshop at San Francisco State College that he called "Poetry as Magic."
Family Life
He was openly gay. He died at the age of forty from complications of alcoholism.
Associated With
He co-founded the Six Gallery, a San Francisco literary and performance venue where Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg recited his famous poem "Howl."
