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Richard Krech
Richard Krech was born in 1946 and grew up in Berkeley, California. He started writing poetry in 1965, and in 1966 founded, The Avalanche, a poetry magazine which lasted five issues. Along with the The Avalanche, Krech published several chapbooks under his Undermine Press imprint and sponsored weekly poetry readings at a Telegraph Avenue bookstore in Berkeley from 1966 to 1969. Krech's first poetry chapbook was published in 1967. His poetry appeared in various small magazines around the country including Work (from John Sinclair's Artists Workshop Press in Detroit), Ole, Manhattan Review, City Light's Journal for the Protection of all Beings, and Kauri. In 2001, Krech started writing poetry again. His second generation poems have appeared in Exit 13, Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Van Gogh's Ear (Paris), California Defender (publication of the California Public Defender's Association), and the Legal Studies Forum, among other magazines and journals. Krech's travels took to Europe, Africa, Asia & Latin America, to Laos, Burma, Nepal, Algeria, Iran, Libya and more prosaic destinations like Jamaica, Mexico, Great Britain, and France. Somewhere along the way he took up Buddhist teachings, which he at one time told us, he finds relevant and helpful in his life. [Source: Personal communication with Richard Krech, 2005-2010] Poems [Two Poems] [Four Poems] Poetry Bibliography of Richard Krech's Published Poetry Richard Krech, We Are On the Verge of Ecstacy (Cleveland, Ohio: 7 flowers press, 1967) ___________, How Easily Your Mind Can Slip Off (Sacramento, California: Runcible Spoon, 1967)(cover illustration of the author by Martha Krech). ___________, The Hashish Scarab (Sacramento,
California: Runcible Spoon, 1968) ___________, Poems from the Free World (Berkeley: np [privately printed], 1972) ___________, The Incompleat Works of Richard Krech: Poems 1966-1974 (Walla Walla, Washington: Litmus, 1976) ___________, The 1932 3AF Claret (Sebastopol, California: Dpress, 2002) ___________, The Location of the Triple Jewel (Sebastopol, California: Dpress, 2003) ___________, Poems for Mary's Garden (Sebastopol, California: Dpress, 2005) ___________, The Devout Man's Late Night Prayer (Berkeley, California: Low & Outside, 2005) ___________, Second Opinion (Dover, Delaware:
Bottle of Smoke Press, 2006) ___________, Some Global Positioning Dharma (Santa Rosa, California: Round Barn Press, 2007) ___________, We Are On the Verge of Ecstacy: Selected Early Poems, 1965-1970 (Cleveland Heights, Ohio: Green Panda Press, 2007) ___________, From Both Sides of the Line Break (Forence, Massachusetts: glass eye books, 2007) ___________, In Chambers: the Bodhisattva of the Public Defender's Office (Somerville, Massachusetts: sunnyoutside, 2008) ___________, Within The Curtilage (Dover, Delaware: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2008) ___________, At the End of Time: The Incomplete Works of Richard Krech, Volume II: Poems 2001-2009 (Buffalo, New York: Sunnyoutside Press, 2010)
Misc. Publications Community Libertarian # 1, 1965, Berkeley [Mimeographed magazine] Printed Educational Material, circa 1965-66, NYC, # 1-3 [four page mimeographed poetry freesheets] Avalanche, #1, 1966, Berkeley [Richard Krech, editor] [photo-offset, cover art by Martha Krech] Avalanche, #2, 1967, Berkeley [Richard Krech, editor] [photo-offset, cover art by Patricia Oberhaus] Avalanche, #3, 1967, Berkeley [Richard Krech, editor] [photo-offset, cover art by Patricia Oberhaus] Avalanche, #4, 1968, Berkeley [Richard Krech, editor] [photo-offset, cover art by Martha Krech] Avalanche, #5, 1969, Berkeley [Richard Krech, editor] [large sheet, four folds] 7 Songs of Morning, Michael Upton, 1966, Berkeley [Cover drawing of author by author] Footprints, Martin P. Abramson, 1967, Berkeley [Internal photo of author] Book for Barb, D.r. Wagner, 1967, Berkeley [Cover by Barb] Deadflowers, John Thompson & John Thomson, 1968, Berkeley [Graphic poems collaboration] Dancing Bear, John Oliver Simon, 1969 [a.k.a. Avalanche #6, + 2nd 1970 printing], Berkeley [Cover photo of Berkeley Street Fighting, photo of author]
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