Jack Micheline is a compelling subject and highly regarded author and

performer of poetry and an abstract/colorist painter whose work spans the

years from 1955 to 1998.



Micheline’s writing contemporaries include Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes,

Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady,

J.T. Farrel, Henry Miller, Bob Kaufman, Charles Olson, and Lawrence

Ferlinghetti. Also, friends of Micheline include fellow artists and

songwriters Charles Mingus, Franz Kline, Willem De Kooning, Janis Joplin,

Bob Dylan, and Van Morrison.



Highlights of Micheline’s career include a 1996 appearance on NBC’s Late

Night with Conan O’Brien show; receipt of the award for ‘Most Valuable

Performance’ at the Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac Conference in 1982; and

winning the ‘Revolt in Literature Award’ from Charles Mingus in New York

City, 1958.



Micheline published over 25 books, chaps and broadsides, had over 30 art

exhibits, and performed his poetry hundreds of times around the world.

Micheline is widely anthologized, appearing in The Jazz Poetry Anthology,

Contemporary Authors and The Portable Beat Reader among others. A

substantial portion of Micheline’s work is archived at the Bancroft Library,

University of California, Berkeley.



Sixty-Seven Poems For Downtrodden Saints is the last book completed by the

poet, Jack Micheline, prior to his death on February 27th, 1998. It is an

important publication, one of Micheline’s finest. This book was completed by

a first time Editor and Publisher, Matt Gonzalez (SF Board of Supervisors)

and financed by Gonzalez and Jack Micheline’s son, Vince Silvaer. It is a

treasure representing a great variety of Micheline’s body of work, and

includes many unique photos and graphics of ‘Beat Generation’ writers and

artists.