NEELI CHERKOVSKI (b. 1945): Born in Southern California with poetic inclinations, Cherkovski has made San Francisco his home since 1975. He is known for his poetry and his prose which have been widely published.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
POETRY
2010 Einstein Alive, Solo Zone Publishing Kindle edition, San Francisco
2005 Einstein Alive, Solo Zone Publishing, San Francisco
2005 Fronteras Rotas, (Bi-lingual collection of poems), Generacion Editorial.University of Guadalajara, and New College of California, Mexico City
2005 Naming the Nameless (Bi-lingual edition), Ediciones La Caudrilla de la Langosta, Mexico City
2004 Naming the Nameless, Sore Dove Publications, SF, CA
2004 Leaning Against Time, R.Crow, Grass Valley, CA
2004 Off the Tongues of Sinners (with A.D. Winans, Gerald Nicosia and Bradley Hamlin), 12 Gauge Press, San Clemente CA
1996 Animal, Berkeley, CA. Pantograph Press
1996 Elegy for Bob Kaufman, Sun Dog Press, Northville, MI
1993 Ways in the Wood, Creeker Press, Prestonburg, KY
1985 Clear Wind, Avant Books, San Diego CA
1983 Love Proof, Greenlight Press, SF CA
1975 The Waters Reborn, Red Hill Press, LA CA
1975 Public Notice, Beatitude Press, SF CA
1974 Home, American, Deep Forest Press, Alexandria, VA
1973 Don't Make a Move, Tecumsah Press, San Bernardino, CA
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
(Some of these publications have appeared in Spanish, French,
German, Japanese, and Finnish editions)
1999 Whitman's Wild Children (Revised, expanded) Portraits of Twelve Poets, Steerforth Press, South Royalton VT
1997 Bukowski :A Life, Steerforth Press, South Roylaton, VT
1996 Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 24, "the Making of a Poet: An Autobiographical Interlude, Gale Research, Detroit, M.I.
1991 Hank: the Life of Charles Bukowski, Random House, NY. NY.. 1991
1988 Heartbeat, Maro Verlag, Augsburg, Germany
1988 Whitman's Wild Children, Lapis Press, LA CA
1979 Ferlinghetti: A Life, Doubleday, NY NY
SELECTED ANTHOLOGIES
2005 The Other Side of the Postcard, edited by Devorah Major, City Lights Foundation
2003 Grass Valley Anthology, edited by William Gainer, R. Crowe Press, Grass Valley CA
2003 Aggressive Behavior Anthology, edited by Owen Roberts
2002 An Eye for An Eye Makes the Whole World: Poets on 9.11 edited by Allen Cohen, Regent Press, Berkeley, CA
2001 Poesia de Generacion, edited by Carlos Martinez Renteria, Generacion, Mexico City
2000 Drinking With Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row, edited by Daniel Weizmann, Thunder's Mouth Press, NYNY
2000 Feltzelen Muzsa: Mai Amerika Koltok (Half-Naked Muse, Contemporary American Poets, Magyar Konuvklubas, Budapest, Hungry
1999 Ragged Lion: A Tribute to Jack Micheline, edited by John Bennett, The Smith and Vagabond Press, Ellensburg, OR
1998 The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, edited by Alan Kaufman, Thunder's Mouth Press, NYNY
1994 A Night at the Palace: Benefit for Visual Aids, edited by Tisa Walden, Cups: A Cafe Journal, SF CA
1994 Slam! Poetry Heftige Dichtung Amerika, Drukhaus Galrev, Berlin, Germany
1990 Stovepiper, Book Two, edited by Mike Daley, Stovepiper, Books, L.A. CA
1989 Would You Wear My Eyes: a Tribute to Bob Kaufman, edited by Jack Hircshman, The Bob Kaufman Collective, SF CA 1989
1980 Practicing Angels, Poetry of the SF Bay Area
1978 Terpentin on the Rocks, edited by Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner, Tashenbuch Veralag, Augsuburg, Germany
1978 Second Coming Anthology: Ten Years in Retrospect, edited by A.d. Winans, Second Coming Press
1978 19 Plus 1, An Anthology of San Francisco Poets, edited by A.D. Winans, Second Coming Press, SF CA
1977 Reaping: Poems, Cries, Chants, Tributes Songs, for the Farmworkers, edited by Mary Rudge, Cocono, Alameda, CA
1976 California Bicentennial Poets Anthology, edited by A.D. Winans, Second Coming Press, SF CA
1974 For Neruda, For Chile, edited by Walt Lowenfels, Citadel Press, NY
EDITOR
1984 Peace or Perish with Herman Berlandt, National Poetry Association, SF CA
1979 Beatitude 20th Anniversary Issue, with Raymond Foye, Beatitude Press, SF CA
1972 Anthology of L.A. Poets with Charles Bukowski and Paul Vangelisti, Red Hill Press, LA CA
1969-71 Laugh Literacy and Man the Humping Guns, with Charles Bukowski, LA CA
1961-65 Black Cat Review, San Bernardino, CA
AWARENESS THROUGH SUSTAINED CREATIVE EFFORT
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