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Steven "Catfish" McDaris (born 1953) is an American poet and author who is often associated with Allen Ginsberg.〔'Cannibal Sunflowers' (2014), Catfish McDaris, Writing Knights Press, Cleveland, Ohio, Copyright information page, Credit: Cover Image, Allen Ginsberg.〕 He is also notable for having collaborated with Charles Bukowski.〔Cutaway Magazine #1, 2012, UK, 'Contributors', 72-75〕 ==Biography== McDaris was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1953. After 3 years serving in the military as a young man, he hopped freights and hitchhiked across the U.S. and Mexico. He built adobe houses, tamed wild horses, made cattle troughs, worked in a zinc smelter, and painted flag poles.〔Cutaway Magazine #1, 2012, UK, 'Contributors', 72-75.〕 For a time, he lived in a cave and wintered in a Chevy in Denver.〔Cutaway Magazine #1, 2012, UK, 'Contributors', 72-75.〕 He eventually settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he worked for the United States Postal Service.〔Cutaway Magazine #1, 2012, UK, 'Contributors', 72-75.〕 In 1994, he organized a charity event of poetry and music in Milwaukee, called Wordstock. During the same year, he also read at The First Underground Press Conference at De Paul University in Chicago. In 1998, he read at a Beatnik festival held near Allen Ginsberg's farm,〔Sarantakis, Sherri (1998). Beats in Cherry Valley / Cherry Valley Arts Festival August 7–9. 1998 : Tribute to 30 years of Beat and Bohemian Influence. Columbus, Ohio: Buchenroth Publishing. ISBN 0966491416.〕 In 2007, he read at Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore in Paris. 〔'Jupiter Orgasma' (2013), Catfish McDaris, Lulu.com, 37, ISBN 978-1-300-70644-1.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catfish McDaris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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