David Plumb grew up in North Adams, Massachusetts and attended Syracuse University majoring in Political Science and English. He worked as a medical technician, paramedic and laboratory technician during those years, but he found himself attracted to writing and literature. One evening he went to a party where someone was reading Lawrence Ferlinghettiâ’s #Coney Island of the Mind.’ It changed his life forever. After his tour as a U.S. Naval Officer, he rented a farmhouse in upstate New York, where he worked in a slaughterhouse for not enough cash and all the heart and tongue he could take home. Then he headed west, working and hitchhiking to San Francisco. In San Francisco, he went to printing school and published Journal 31, directed the Intersection Poetry Series and worked a series of jobs to maintain his writing. In Sonoma, California, he raised chickens and ducks. From time to time he has acted in Hollywood films such as Fat Man, Little Boy and Tucker. One of David’s fondest achievements is his teaching career. He taught Poetry in the Schools California and expedited the Northern California Poetry in the Schools Handbook. In 1991 he was one of 48 people in the world to present at the first International Conference on Literature and Addiction at the University of Sheffield, UK. Writing has appeared in The Miami Herald, The Washington Post, The Orlando-Sentinel, Alimentum, St. Martin’s Anthology, Mondo James Dean and 100 Poets Against the War, Salt Press, Australia,. Books include The Music Stopped and Your Monkey’s on Fire, Man in a Suitcase, Drugs and All That. A Slight Change in the Weather, short stories, was published in November 2006. Will Rogers said, ‘Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.’ David says, ‘It depends on the parrot.’ To read a selection of David’s poems on the showcase section of this site, click here.

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