After graduating from Lowell High School in 1958, he spent three years in the Army – two of them stationed in Alaska.
He then worked odd jobs, before enrolling in Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he helped found the college's literary magazine Parnassus, a multi-award winning publication still in print today.
He then went to the University of Alaska, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree and was hired to help establish the English Department at the newly opened Anchorage Campus.
His most recent book is For the Sake of the Light,[3] which includes "Alaska Spring," a poem that was set to music by American composer Libby Larsen and premiered April 21, 2012 for the 25th anniversary of the Alaska Chamber Singers.
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