MARC OLMSTED
(photo credit: dion olivier w/ suzi kaplan)
Allen Ginsberg said "MARC OLMSTED inherited Burroughs' scientific nerve & Kerouac's movie-minded line nailed down with gold eyebeam in San Francisco." Olmsted has appeared in CITY LIGHTS JOURNAL, NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE & POETRY, OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY, SIGNS OF LIFE (a Manic D Press anthology), PROCESSED WORLD, Flesh Eater Chris D's BONGO CHALICE, BLUE SATELLITE and a variety of small presses. His work includes two books, MILKY DESIRE (Subterranean Press, 1991) and RÉSUMÉ (Inevitable Press, 1998).
He has also made two short films, BURROUGHS ON BOWERY, a portrait of the NAKED LUNCH author, and AMERICAN MUTANT, with Burroughs, Ginsberg & Timothy Leary. His latest film project, THE COUNT, stars Dion Olivier, lead singer of Late Young.
Olmsted appeared at the L.A. Ginsberg Memorial along with Tom Waits, Exxene and Johnny Depp.
His book, WHAT USE AM I A HUNGRY GHOST? - POEMS FROM 3-YEAR RETREAT (Valley Contemporary Press, 2001), has an introduction by Ginsberg. http://www.amazon.com
His very latest chapbook can be ordered directly below.
Fresh Lotus Rehab (2009)
by Marc Olmsted
Virgogray Press
paperback
41 pages
Olmsted is a senior student of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. http://www.vajrayana.org
Olmsted has studied Buddhism since 1974 and completed a 3-year retreat supervised by his teacher. Afterwards, he was encouraged to teach in the San Francisco chapter of Tharchin Rinpoche's students, Last Chance Gompa. It is now established across the Bay in Oakland.
Marc Olmsted's current book project is DON'T HESITATE: 23 YEARS KNOWING ALLEN GINSBERG, a memoir including their correspondence. He has lectured with Anam Thubten Rinpoche at Naropa University and UC Santa Cruz. http://www.dharmata.org
Allen Ginsberg, Anam Thubten Rinpoche and Marc Olmsted -
October 3, 1996, DNA Lounge, San Francisco.
ADVICE
The more successful
poet explains
his fortune to me as
a "course
in miracles" -
My father told me
about Anne Frank's
diary when I
was 12 - how
it ended with
her view of
human "basic goodness"
as the Nazis
came down -
Fritz Lang said
in CONTEMPT
"To live is to
suffer" -
When I told this
to my lama
he said "That's
very beautiful."
TO VIEW MARC OLMSTED'S WORK AT OTHER WEBSITES:
http://www.poetspath.com
(then click on NAPALM HEALTH SPA and also TRANSMISSIONS)
http://www.jackmagazine.com http://www.longshot.org
http://www.poetrysuperhighway.com
http://www.myfavoritebullet.com
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org
TO CONTACT MARC OLMSTED:
vanhelsing93@hotmail.com
CHECK OUT MARC OLMSTED'S POETRY WORKSHOP!
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