| John Oliver Simon is a fifth-generation Californian born in New York City in 1942. His most recent book of poems is Caminante (Creative Arts, 2002). From the Lightning, a selection of his translations of the great Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas, for which he received an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2001, will be published this year by Green Integer. He is included in the Addison Street Anthology, and his work is engraved in bronze on the eponymous Berkeley sidewalk. He works as Artistic Director of Poetry Inside Out, a bilingual writers-in-schools program. |