He spent 1973-1974 in Santiago de Chile, during the early Pinochet regime, which he documented in his poetry book, Santiago Poems.

Over the years, his poetry has appeared in Poetry Magazine.He has read his poetry at many colleges and universities, as well as the Theater of Latin America and the U.S. Congress.He has written essays and plays as well as poetry, and during the early 1980s, he was general editor for Curbstone's ART ON THE LINE chapbook series.

He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Connecticut, and lives in San Francisco.

California State University, Chico has named a poetry reading series for him.

Poetry

• Boxcars (2006);
• Words Without Music (2004)
• Santiago Poems Curbstone Press (1975) ISBN 978-0-915306-21-3
• Communications (with Grandin Conover, 1970)

Translations

Essays