“His poems’ enjoyable energies flash wise.”
-Allen Ginsberg
Born Belgium ’43. Battle of the Bulge. 1949 enter NY. Train to Reno. Grow up Oakland CA. Bounce around colleges. Marine Corps. Get Poetry. Travel work write perform next 26 years: SF Bay, Denver, Chicago, Nashville, Eugene, Cascades, Alaska, Montana, Vancouver, Thunder Bay, Austin, Boulder, Cherry Valley, New Paltz, New York, New Brunswick, Kathmandu, Prague. Hod Carriers Local #166. Taught and lectured at Naropa Institute, Rutgers, Brooklyn College, University of Texas etc…
Andy Clausen passed away peacefully in New York on April 11, 2024.