Edgar Oliver, Theodore Schroetter, and Ron Riddell. Edgar Oliver first started performing in New York City at the Pyramid Club in the mid-1980s. Oliver has written at least a dozen plays, including The Poetry Killers, The Ghost of Brooklyn, When She Had Blood Lust, The Master of Monstrosity; I Am A Coffin, My Green Hades, and Chop Off Your Ear. These have often been produced at La MaMa, etc. Oliver has published two poetry collections: A Portrait of New York by a Wanderer There, Summer, and the novel The Man Who Loved Plants. His style has been characterized as 19th Century romantic. Theodore Schroetter is a Native New Yorker. At Berkeley in the 1960s he was considered the chief anti-Vietnam-War poet. Ron Riddell is a New Zealand poet, musician and writer with a deep commitment to ecology, on all possible levels: natural, social-temporal, philosophic and spiritual. He believes and works in the spirit of the transformative power of poetry and all creative human expression. His work has been translated into a dozen languages. Recently, his poems have featured in several large international anthologies, in Kenya, Bangladesh, Japan and Nepal. His latest book, a collection of poems entitled Awakening to Timelessness was published in 2024.
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