A. D. Winans

Other writers he published included Jack Micheline, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Levine, Josephine Miles, David Meltzer, Charles Plymell.

Honors include Quiet Lightning, Neighborhood Hero (San Francisco), and Language of the Birds (Artistic History Plaque/North Beach).

of Education (Office of Civil Rights) as an Equal Opportunity Specialist investigating discrimination against minorities, women, and the disabled, 1990-1995.

One of two hundred artists out of two thousand applicants chosen under the Federal CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act) for a position with the San Francisco Art Commission where he worked as a poet and editor from 1975-1980.

In 1976, teamed with poet Paul Fericano to teach poetry to seventh and eighth-graders at two San Mateo County junior high schools.

Appeared in the documentary film, "When I Die I Won't Stay Dead," on the life of poet Bob Kaufman, screened at the 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival He has performed at countless venues including, the Keystone Jazz Club, the Top of the Mark (Mark Hopkins Hotel), the Beat Museum, the Santa Cruz Poetry Festival, City Lights, and as the feature poet at the 2012 U.C.