Bio:
J. Barrett Wolf has been called a modern-day Renaissance Man. Informing his poetry and essays are many miles of jobs, highways and life. As a teen, he hitchhiked, guitar and backpack in hand, from New York to Georgia and back to Massachusetts.
There was a little college in there, where he wrote for the school paper. A year tearing down barns and playing bluegrass guitar in North Carolina... then on to San Francisco as a street musician, playing original songs on Fisherman's wharf and in Ghirardelli Square.
It was there that Wolf decided to try "The most challenging, difficult and unlikely" job he could imagine for a long-haired street musician and songwriter - He applied to the San Francisco Police Department. Much to the amazement of all, he entered the department, graduated the academy and hit the street. Though only on the job for a year, he earned a Bronze Medal of Valor, when he and his partner saved a man from jumping from a downtown hotel window ledge.
First published in the 1970's, Wolf has had over thirty poems placed in print and 'net magazines around the country, with Spanish translations of his work appearing in Caribbean newspapers. He has toured as a Connecticut Touring Poets Roster Artist, and in the bilingual poetry duo "Cafe con Leche" with the Outstanding Dominican Poet, Marianela Medrano.
Returning East, he moved to Connecticut where he was elected President of the Stamford Loft Artists Association. Then he relocated to Cape Cod, where he began to refocus on his writing. It was there that he won his first (and last) poetry slam, and discovered the Highway Poets Motor Cycle Club. He currently lives in upstate New York.Given any excuse, he travels on his Custom Harley-Davidson Road King. He's an active member of the Highway Poets Motor Cycle Club, the international association of published bikers. Wolf is also Editor of RoadPoet-NY.com, a biker-poetry web site.
States I've visited: (in red)
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