Chico Martin
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Pastor (Retired) |
| Location | Vermont |
| Introduction | I have lived in Vermont, near the Canadian border, and in southern New Mexico, near the Mexican border, for most of my adult life. For 13 years I owned and operated the Alley Beat Bookstore, in Middlebury, Vermont, which specialized in contemporary poetry and small press publications. I was active in the Burlington, Vermont Poets Mimeo Cooperative for many years, and my poetry has appeared in a k a, OASII, Puerto del Sol, Sin Fronteras, :that:, and Vox Audio. More recently, I have been active in the ecumenical study and Christian worship Transfiguration Community, based in NYC. I also sit Zazen online with Dragon's Eye Zendo. I was baptized in Corpus Christi Catholic Church, in Morningside Heights, the same church where Thomas Merton was baptized. I recently helped found the Vermont Renaissance, a poets' writing and discussion get together in Charlotte, Vermont. |
| Interests | Art: Louise Bourgeois, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Smithson, Fairfield Porter, Milton Avery, Minor White, El Greco, William Blake; Christian Liturgics, Retablos, Cathedrals, Thomas Cranmer, St. John Chrysostom; Inklings, W.B. Yeats, Robert Duncan, Flannery O'Connor; Jazz, Dōgen Zenji, Krishna, and Bob Dylan. |
| Favorite Music | Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Bill Dixon, Charles Mingus, Roscoe Mitchell, Luigi Nono, Olivier Messiaen, Toru Takemitsu, Carl Nielsen, John Tavener, Brian Wilson, Townes Van Zandt, Michael Chorney, and the Grateful Dead. |
| Favorite Books | H.D.(TRIBUTE TO FREUD), Robert Duncan (THE TRUTH & LIFE OF MYTH), Rolf Jacobsen (Poems), C.S. LEWIS (THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH, THE GREAT DIVORCE), Haruki Murakami (1Q84), Flannery O'Connor (WISE BLOOD), Walker Percy (THE MOVIEGOER), Kathleen Raine (W.B. YEATS & THE LEARNING OF THE IMAGINATION), Tomas Transtromer (Poems), Charles Williams (ALL HALLOW'S EVE). The Bhagavad Gita, Book of Common Prayer, and Holy Bible. |