Gary Rosenthal has worked as a Fire Lookout Ranger in the White
Mountains
of New Hampshire, lived for a number of years as a Zen monastic,
and spent ten
years running a charter fishing boat off the California Coast.
He lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area where he supports himself as a psychotherapist
in private
practice, having received his initial training at the C.G. Jung
Institute-Zurich.
He is the former poetry editor of Blind Donkey, one of
the West's oldest Buddhist
literary journals, and has taught as a poet in Berkeley, California
Schools.
In addition to having authored The You That Is Everywhere, selections
from two
of his collections have been anthologized in Parallax Press' What
Book!? - Buddha
Poems from Beat to Hiphop, an American Book Award winner for
1999. The title
poem from one of Gary's forthcoming books ( "Yes") has
recently been
anthologized in a collection of spiritual writing entitled 365
Nirvana Here and Now:
living every moment in enlightenment (published by Element
Books). The title poem
from another of Gary's forthcoming poetry collections, "The
Musuem of the Lord
of Shame," is currently available as a chapbook from
Point Bonita Books, as is an
audio tape of Gary's opening address to the 2000 International
Enneagram
Conference, entitled "Love and the
Poetic Tradition."
He is currently finishing a prose work on the goddess Persephone,
and her
relevance for our time.
Gary can be reached by emailing him at Garysroses@aol.com
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