JACK FOLEY BIO AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

from Berkeley Daze

 


 
JACK FOLEY is a poet and critic who, with his wife, Adelle, performs his work frequently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born Neptune, New Jersey (1940), grew up in Port Chester, New York. Education: Cornell University (BA, English Literature, 1963); University of California at Berkeley (MA, English Literature, 1965). Since 1988 he has hosted a show of interviews and poetry presentations on Berkeley radio station KPFA. His current show, Cover to Cover, is on every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Foley's poetry books include Letters/Lights-Words for Adelle (1987), Gershwin (1991), Adrift (1993, nominated for a Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award), Exiles (1996), and (with Ivan Argüelles) New Poetry from California: Dead / Requiem (1998). He has also published three poetry chapbooks: Advice to the Lovelorn (1998); Saint James (with Ivan Argüelles, 1988), an homage to James Joyce; and Some Songs by Georges Brassens (2001). Foley's Greatest Hits 1974-2003 (2004) appeared from Pudding House Press.

 


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