Great Regulars: Editor's note: In this week's Poetry Corner,

we feature the work of Rob Wilson who has published poems and reviews in Bamboo Ridge journal since 1979, and in various other journals from Tinfish, Taxi, Manoa, and Central Park to New Republic, Ploughshares, Partisan Review, and Poetry. He is a western Connecticut native who attended UC Berkeley, where he was founding editor of the Berkeley Poetry Review in 1974. His study "Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics" is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in spring 2009; and a collection of cultural criticism from Asia/Pacific (co-edited with Christopher Connery) "The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization" appeared with New Pacific Press/North Atlantic Books in fall 2007. He currently lives in La Selva Beach and San Francisco, and he is a professor of literature and cultural studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Twelve for Kerouac

from Good Times Weekly: Poetry Corner: Spooning Out Wisdom

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