Larry Kearney was born in Brooklyn in 1943. His father was from Galway, his mother from Glasgow, and they were good people. After attending Brooklyn Technical High School and Harpur College, he moved to San Francisco in 1964, where his first book, Fifteen Poems, was published that year by Graham MacIntosh at White Rabbit Press. Other publications followed, including Dead Poem (White Rabbit), Five (Tombouctou), Kidnapped (Foot), Oz and Damaged Architecture (Smithereens), Streaming (Trike/O Books), Passion, Transmission, and The Only Available Substance/Please Keep My Word (with Sarah Menefee) from Worm in the Rain Publications, a personal press through which he has published a large number of titles. He lives in Northern California.
