Steve Dickison

Steve Dickison, a poet and writer, teaches writing and literature, as Lecturer in the Department of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts. Born and raised in Northern Minnesota, he moved to the Bay Area in 1983, attending classes in the Poetics Program at New College of California during that decade, taught by Aaron Shurin, Duncan McNaughton, David Meltzer, Michael Palmer, and Robert Duncan. He worked as a bookseller and distributor through the 1990s, coming to San Francisco State University in 1999. As Director of the SFSU Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives, he conducts the Poetry Center reading series, and curates an audio and video collection containing some 4,000 hours of original recordings.

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