from Rochford Street Review: Vale JOANNE KYGER

Vale Joanne Kyger by Mark Roberts

Joanne Kyger .Photo by Andrew Kenower.

Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of Joanne Kyger on 22 March. Associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, poet Joanne Kyger studied philosophy and literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, moving to San Francisco in 1957 just before she finished her degree. In San Francisco she attended the Sunday meetings of Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and moved into the East West House, a communal house for students of Zen Buddhism and Asian studies. She lived in Japan with Gary Snyder, her husband at the time, and traveled in India with Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky. She eventually returned to California, where she lived until her death in 2017. (Text courtesy of the Poetry Foundation)

Full bography and links to poems are available at  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/joanne-kyger#poet

And an interview at http://queenmobs.com/2017/02/everyone-counts-questions-joanne-kyger/