A two-time winner of the World Heavyweight Poetry Championship, LEWIS MACADAMS is the author of ten books of poetry, a film documentarian (What Happened to Kerouac?, Eric Bogosian’s FunHouse, and The Battle of the Bards), and an award-winning writer for Rolling Stone, Actuel, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and L.A. Weekly, among many others. Born in West Texas, MacAdams graduated from Princeton in 1966 but got most of his education following beat poet Gregory Corso around the Village and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.

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