In the Palm of Your Hand, Second Edition: A Poet''s Portable Workshop

About Steve Kowit

Born in New York in the 1930s Steve Kowit was part of the Lower East Side poetry-reading scene in the early 1960s; later attracted by the intellectual freedom of the Beat poets he moved to San Francisco''s Haight Ashbury. Celebrated for his electrifying readings he taught at San Diego State San Diego City College UC San Diego and the College of Southern Idaho. He edited the anthology The Maverick Poets translated a volume of Pablo Neruda''s political poetry wrote two collections inspired by the love poetry of India and published eight other volumes of poetry. His work appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Steve described himself as a poet essayist teacher workshop facilitator and all-around no good troublemaker. Recently retired from Southwestern College in Chula Vista but still holding poetry workshops in San Diego he died in his sleep in 2015 at home with his wife Mary in Potrero CA just days before his latest volume of poetry was published by Tampa University Press.