Bay Poets
young and in love,
or hoping to be,
we walked the hills
of San Francisco
late summer nights,
singing into the fog
the way cats howl
at the moon
Mark Hein, a poet and painter, began making art on a fog-swept hill in San Francisco. After traveling the world, raising a family, and working as a teacher, journalist, and psychotherapist, he makes art in a wooded canyon in Los Angeles.
"I wrote my first poem at 14, to struggle with a loss...
It's been a way of working through crises ever since.
But it's also become a way of celebrating moments (hence my love of haiku),
and exploring our intense feelings.
I haven't sought to publish my poetry since
I was in my early 20s... Now, I simply want to make it
available to whomever it was given me for."
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