about me

Larry Winfield attended his first poetry reading at Weeds in Chicago in 1990. Over the next twelve years he hosted open mics, featured at many local venues and festivals, organized the protest poetry reading at the ' 96 Democratic Convention, hosted a weekly poetry and jazz show on pirate station Guerilla Love Radio as DJ Merlot, published poetry books and the online/print zines Liquid Glyph and City Table Review, and performed in Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, NY, LA and SF, and with ensemble groups Brothers in Verse and the many versions of his poetry band Brass Orchid. He currently lives in L A, produces the "Sundown Lounge" podzine, and his latest project, the horror/SF podcast novel, Banjo Strings.

favourite books

Anything by Issac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delaney, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Bishop, Nikki Giovanni, Carlos Castenada, Pablo Neruda, Joseph Campbell, James Joyce, Agatha Christie, Wole Soyinka, Alice Walker, Robert Anton Wilson, Spider Robinson, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Wanda Coleman, Zora Neale Hurston, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Theodore Sturgeon, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ishmael Reed, Anne McCaffrey, Dan Brown, Alexander Dumas, Ben Bova... There are many other authors I've read and enjoyed - this short list is just off the top of my head.

my websites

www.larrywinfield.com