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BB Smith B.A. New York University, MST Pace University, Celta Certificate, University of Cambridge, UK. Poetry and essays have appeared in Literary Magazines and Anthologies. Author of TINKERBELLE AND THE TAXI POEMS(published in part) and currently working on two poetry manuscripts: PLUMBING IN THE MIDDLE AGES and POEMS NOIR: DRIVING IN THE DARK AS THE LAST LATE NIGHT POET.
I have written a number of short stories, a screenplay (BABE IN THE LAND OF WAHOOS), a one-act drama, TALE FROM THE FRONT (SEAT), and am currently working on a short story/drama: STRAWBERRY 'N DRIFTER. I am also doing research on an unknown but extremely gifted and reclusive 19th century American poet who is contemporary with the hermit, Emily Dickinson, and lived only twenty miles away. I am convinced they knew each other..From the research will come a book or a dramatic piece.
I've been a producer of video documentaries and a TV Talk Host of a Psychic New Age show, THE ENCHANTED CANDLE which aired in Westchester and New York. Currently I drive buses, short and long distances, to satisfy my yearing for the open road. This is one of the few ways I can assimilate the fact that I have to work for a living, with a bit of my creative talent: working at night frees the the mind to hear lines of song and verse and allows the mind to wander, a privilidge few artists have these days.
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How "Kissing My Ancestors" came about:
Because we are preoccupied with sex here in America, I decided to address the issue. The Poem searches through the millenia for the origins of art and for that fanciful moment when humans first began kissing. As I was writing, it made me wonder if there will ever be an archaeological dig that unearths pots and tablets telling risque tales like these, or perhaps makes the discovery of a cave full of amusing pornographic verse.
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