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A Brief Bio Hazard:
An active and even proactive member of the ULA
since late 2002 Frank Walsh (aka, The Masked
Perfesser) has been a self proclaimed radical poet,
reading, performing, publishing, organizing along
socialistic propensities, and work shopping (with
the working class elderly, fellow poets, and the
emotionally- mentally handicapped, never with
MFAers and their ilk), pissing off the literary
special interests and challenging the neo-liberal
academic establishment in Philadelphia since the
early 1970's on in more ways than he would care to
say - cause it would bore him.
Consequentially but in hindsight predictably
blacklisted by the cliques and the aforementioned
literary syndicalist goons including even the so
called Anarchists he has barely time to consider
any of this important consumed willingly by
survival as a house-painter, carpenter, and general
laborer, as a street poet whose savvy is well
steeped in a well rounded self readiness in all the
fine arts, the natural sciences, magick, some
martial arts, and the American poetic tradition
especially where political- surrealism, idiom
antics, and the listening to the speech of the
people is concerned, thirdly, meat-and-potatoes
Buddhist metaphysics and meditation in the
Theravadan tradition, and, finally, assorted road
trips over the years back and forth between the
South West and the great dead end of the East
Coast, stopping off here and there in Tucson,
Phoenix, Houston, Jacksonville and even
Wilkes-Barre-Scranton for a couple of years or
more. Recent breakouts include driving to Chicago
with poet Mike Grover to participate in the Cullen
Carter benefit performing the notorious "Reagan's
Brain" as the Masked Perfesser for the first time
in August of '03; the first annual
DeadDrunkDublin.com festival at Mother Red Caps
Tavern in Dublin, Ire. August of '04; the Southwest
Baltimore Arts Festival this past Memorial Day on
the Arlington Street stage; and various times with
the Hydrogen Jukebox band and Side Show Review
under the auspices of the Poets' Union outdoors on
South Street, in the Adrienne Theater as part of
the Fringe Festival, and the Tri-Tone Bar with
jazzman and poet Elliott Levine, etc., etc..
At all these recent shticks he has made use of to
promote and drum up support and awareness of the
ULA, its mission and call to arms.
West Philadelphia, 1.26.05
CONTACT:
nohbard@gmail.com
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