Michael Rothenberg

Born in Miami Beach, Florida in 1951, Michael Rothenberg has been an active environmentalist in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 25 years, where he cultivates orchids and bromeliads at his nursery, Shelldance. He is a poet, songwriter, editor and co-founder of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry and everything else. He is also co-editor and co-founder of JACK Magazine, a literary publication that relates to, but expands beyond, the beat generation.

resources on the web

Who We Are Now, A Retrospective of Michael Rothenberg
Long retrospective essay in Jacket 33 on Rothenberg's work by Vernon Frazer and Kirpal Gordon.
http://jacketmagazine.com/33/frazer-gordon-rothenberg.shtml 

Big Bridge
Years of work and thousands of pages.
http://www.bigbridge.org/ 

JACK Magazine
Edited by Mary Sands.
http://www.jackmagazine.com/