Gary Gach

Gary G. Gach (born November 30, 1947) is a Californian author, editor, teacher, and occasional actor.

Life

Gach was born in Los Angeles. He was student body president of John Burroughs Junior High School, about whose milieu James Ellroy has written in "Let's Twist Again" [published in "Crime Wave"] .

Following graduation from Fairfax High, he spent a summer in New York City, during which time he shared a desk with poet Ted Berrigan at ESP Disk'.

Following his return to California, he moved to San Francisco, where he's been based ever since.

He facilitates mindfulness meditation at The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples (America's first interracial, interfaith church) and serves on the International Advisory Panel of The Buddhist Channel (the world's first global Buddhist media).

Career

"Sunny" in "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," Laguna Beach Playhouse, 1958; William Inge encourages. First poetry reading, 1964; James Boyer May encourages. 1969-1984, George Oppen and Mary Oppen befriend and encourage. [to be edited]

Published works

Periodicals

+175 appearances, including: "Alcatraz, American Cinematographer, American Poetry Review, AsianWeek, Beatitude, Big Bridge, Brick, BuddhaDharma, Calque, CommonGround, Crazy Horse, Evergreen Review, Drunken Boat, European Judaism, Grist, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Hambone, Heaven Bone, Invisible City, Lilipoh – The Spirit in Life, Manōa, Mantis, Mindfulness Bell, The Nation, New American Writing, New Asia Review, The New Yorker, Rif/t, San Francisco Chronicle, Shambhala Sun, Telephone, , Two Lines, Turning Wheel, Urthona, Wch Way, Whole Earth Review, World Literature Today, Yoga Journal," and "Zyzzyva."

Anthologies

"A Book of Luminous Things" (Czeslaw Milosz, editor); "A Brotherhood in Song" (Stephen Soong, editor); "Code of Signals" (Michael Palmer, editor); "Exiled in the Word" (Jerome Rothenberg, editor); "Language for a New Century"; "Poems for the Millennium " (Jerome Rothenberg, editor); "Sparks of Fire: Blake in a New Age" (James Bogan, editor); "Technicians of the Sacred" (Jerome Rothenberg, editor); "Translations" (Jan Greenberg, editor); "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace" (Maxine Hong Kingston, editor); "Visions" ("National Geographic," editor); "World Poetry" (Clifton Fadiman, editor); and others.

Books

* "Preparing the Ground : Poems 1960-1970" (Heirs, International; San Francisco)

* "The Pocket Guide to the Internet" (Pocket Books; New York)

* "Writers.net: Every Writer's Essential Guide to Online Resources and Opportunities" (Prima Publishing; Rocklin, NY)

* [as editor] "What Book!? : Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop" [Editor] (Parallax Press; Albany, CA)

* "Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism" [second edition] (Alpha Books, NY)

* [as co-translator] "Ten Thousand Lives" by Ko Un (introduction by Robert Hass) (Green Integer: Los Angeles)

* [as co-translator] " Flowers of a Moment" 185 brief poems by Ko Un (BOA Editions, Ltd.; Rochester, NY)

* [as co-translator] "Songs for Tomorrow: A Collection of Poems 1960-2001 by" Ko Un (Green Integer; Los Angeles)

Awards

He is a recipient of a Shirle E. Robbins Award and an American Book Award (for "What Book!?"). He is recipient of a Northern California Book Award in translation (2007) for his work on "Flowers of a Moment" and shortlisted by them (2006) for "Ten Thousand Lives," both by Ko Un. He is an honorary member of The Academy of American Poets. He is recipient of translation grants from the Korea Literary Translation Institute and the Lannan Foundation. Poets & Writers, Inc. has readings of his through their funding initiative.

External links

* [http://word.to Homepage]
* [http://word.to/speak.html Speaking gigs]
* [http://thebuddhistchannel.tv The Buddhist Channel]
* [http://fellowshipsf.org Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples]