Poetry. "Reading Dale Jensen is like stepping into an intense vortex of images swirling at a velocity beyond the threshold of the mere mortal mind and yet maintaining a maddeningly precise geometry of focus. And here he goes again. He takes his scissors to the world and forces us to look at each and every remaining shard of reality, while screaming, 'subdigm the domivert paranant!'"—David Partch.

Author City: BERKELEY, CA USA

Dale Jensen was born in Oakland, California, and grew up there. Heavily influenced by the Surrealist movement, he is known internationally as an exponent of the cut-up technique. He edited the poetry magazine Malthus from 1985 through 1989. He has published eight books of poetry, the latest three of which are CYCLONE FENCE (2007), OEDIPUS' FIRST LOVER (2009), and AUTO BIO (2010). His poetry has been published in many magazines and journals including Lost and Found Times, TALISMAN, Convolvulus, Dirigible, The Walrus, Ur-Vox, Poetry East, and many others. He has co-coordinated poetry readings since 1989, and is currently involved in the Last Word Reading Series at Nefeli Caffe in Berkeley.