Gerald Fleming’s poetry and prose poems have appeared widely over the past thirty years. He has won numerous awards and fellowships, and between 1995 and 2000 he edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review, whose archives can be found at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. His book of poems Swimmer Climbing onto Shore was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2005. He taught in the San Francisco public schools for thirty-seven years, and has published three books for teachers, the most recent of which is Rain, Steam, and Speed. He lives in Lagunitas, California.
Gerald Fleming performed on April 21st, 2011.