January 21, 2025

August Kleinzahler, a Poet Who Loves His Typewriter

San Francisco’s Angry Poet

One of my favorite poets, August Kleinzahler, uses a Smith-Corona typewriter exclusively, and sometimes while sitting on the toilet. In the photo, the bad boy of American poetry has a drink at one of his hangouts, the Zam Zam bar in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

Tom Fasano

I am an unapologetic hack writer, blogger, and poet, and an obsessive writer of classical music cd reviews. You can read my reviews at www.classicalguy.com

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