Cheja
I have engaged in the art of poetry for 40 years as a means of creative joy as well as for exploring my inner life and supra-rational realms. My poems are highly charged surreal bombs. They blow up in your mind and you see God. God being of course in the clothing of the ineffable. My style? Rock poetry. Punk heartbeat. Feet made for guessing. Love at first sight. Dada. Mama. Hand squeezing a wet scent. I'm an urban punk, business expatriate, progenitor, poet, and hitchhiker on the mad streets of love's orphans. I don’t write mere poems, I write war cries, manifestos, prayers. I write epitaphs. Find your way. Celebrate death. Fall in love. And oh yes, welcome to the new millennium.Creative Writing Highlights
Bread Loaf Writer's Conference.
Award: Most Promising Young Poet, by Pulitzer nominee Sandra Hochman,
Indiana University Writers Conference.
Studied with Pulitzer Prize winner Stanley Kunitz at Columbia University, NYC.
Volunteer: poetry therapy with psychiatric inpatients, Bellevue Hospital, NYC.
Taught poetry to multi-cultured ghetto teenagers, NYC.
First Place, Big Apple Poetry Contest, NYC, chosen by NY Times Art Critic + Pulitzer nominee.
Editor, Desert Song: Art Therapy Magazine, UNM, for two years.
Co-presenter, American Art Therapy Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles:
"Myth, Metaphor, and Imagination in Art Therapy: A Case Study."
Film review of Fatal Attraction in Los Angeles Times, Oct 4, 1987.
Published "Golden Arrows", in Pilgrimage: Reflections on the Human Journey, 20:3.
Co-editor of Myth, Magic, Mystery catalog of art and artist manifestos.
First Place in Poetry for San Francisco Writer's Conference 2011 Indie Publishing Contest.
