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| Poet Richard Waring |
see it live at 5PM March 28 at: Poet to Poet
About the Author
Richard Waring’s poems have appeared in the Comstock Review,
Chest, Sanctuary, Contact II, Dark Horse, the American Journal of Nursing,
Mothering, Inward Springs, the Journal of the American Medical Association,
and other publications. He has been anthologized in The Pocket Poetry
Parenting Guide, Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains,
and Unitarian Universalist Poets: A Contemporary American Survey,
and has appeared on Phone-A-Poem and the cable TV show BookBeat.
Richard has a B.A. in English Literature from Drew University
and attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
at Naropa Institute, where he studied the poetry of William Carlos
Williams with Allen Ginsberg. From 1982 to 1988, he edited
Zonë, A Feminist Journal for Women and Men. In 1992, he was the
writing workshop leader at the Star Island Conference on the Arts.
His chapbook, Listening to Stones, was published in 1999 by Pudding House
Publications. He hosts the Workshop for Publishing Poets reading series
at Newtonville Books in Newton, Massachusetts. A long-time resident
of Belmont, Massachusetts, where he raised a son and daughter,
Richard now lives in neighboring Arlington with his wife and her
children. He is a senior layout artist for the
New England Journal of Medicine.