David Barry Temple
My blogs
| Location | Taichung City , Taiwan |
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| Introduction | David Barry Temple is a graduate of San Francisco State University’s Creative Writing Program. He performed in the 1978 Annual San Francisco Poets Festival with the troupe from Cloud House, and in New York City where his first short story, “The Rape,” was published in Riverrun Anthology ’77. His collection of short stories, Forgotten People of Taiwan, was published in 2014, Han River; Poems from Taichung, was published in 2015 and Unnatural Beauty; Poems from the Han Riverside was published in 2018. He mastered at Seton Hall University in Pedagogy. He was treasurer and creator-editor of Wobbly City for the New York City branch of The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and delegate to the Faculty Advisory Committee chapter of The United Federation of Teachers at FDR High School in Brooklyn, New York City, where he taught ESL for twenty-five years, twelve more in Taiwan |
| Interests | workers rights, progressive education, poetry, Taiwan, cats, |