John Wieners was a United States lyric poet. He attended St. Gregory’s in Dorchester, MA and Boston College High School. From 1950-1954 he studied at Boston College, where he earned his A.B. In 1954 he heard Charles Olson read at the Charles Street Meeting House on Beacon Hill in the midst of a hurricane. He decided to enroll at Black Mountain College where he studied under Olson and Robert Duncan from 1955 to 1956. Wikipedia
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Wieners journeyed to San Francisco where he published his breakthrough Hotel Wentley Poems in 1958, at age twenty-four. www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/wieners.htm
IN MEMORIAM John Wieners January 6th. 1934 March 1st 2002 Even tho all the pencils break and all the typewriters hang in The Pawnshop Window, words go on. tomraworth.com/wieners.html
John Wieners was many things. He was a civil and gay rights activist, an anti-war proponent, a mental patient, a teacher, a writer, a homosexual, but most importantly a poet. Born in 1934 in the Boston area, he was identified as a BEAT poet, who was kno https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID...
John Wieners died in 2002. This piece was published in the Boston College Magazine in the Northern Fall of 2000. It is reprinted here with permission. The piece is 4,700 words or about ten printed pages long. ... John Wieners once wrote, 'I will be jacketmagazine.com/21/wien-petro.html
Abstract: Born in 1934, near Boston, John Wieners studied at Black Mountain College from 1955-1956. An associate of the San Francisco and Beat Writers, he is an American poet and gay activist. ... Born in Boston, MA, on 6 January 1934, John Wieners is www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/findaids/Wieners/MSS1986...