Dan Barker, initiator of American Tanka (poetry banners) and founder of the Home Gardening Project, is a poet, artist, and novelist. He began writing poetry while in the South China Sea on a troop ship departing DaNang at the end of 1965. The following years took him to readings in coffee houses, colleges, radio stations, teach-ins and antiwar rallies. He was published in many West Coast literary magazines. Retreating the San Francisco State University riots in ‘70, he began publishing mystic lyric verse and short stories in other literary magazines, including...more
