Richard Loranger is a multi-genre writer, performer, musician, and visual artist who has been working around the United States for over thirty-five years. He has lived in New York, Austin, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Chicago, San Francisco, and currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
He is the author of Sudden Windows (Zeitgeist Press, 2016), Poems for Teeth (We Press, 2005), The Orange Book (International Review Press, 1990), and ten chapbooks. His work has been included in over one hundred magazines and journals, and thirty anthologies, including Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza, Poetry Flash, and Nomadic Journal.
He has done over 500 featured readings, in venues ranging from the Davis (CA) Jazz & Beat Festival to Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA, Intersection for the Arts, City Lights, Paradise Lounge, and Cafe Babar in San Francisco to The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, The Bowery Poetry Club, and Teachers and Writers in New York. He has shared a bill with such poets and performers as Jim Carroll, Anne Waldman, Francisco X. Alarcon, and The Last Poets, and the bands Fugazi, Big Black, Sister Double Happiness, The Dead Milkmen, and X.