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Born under a full moon on the fall equinox in the year of the snake, Steven Schmidt practiced pure pretension until humbled by the Muse.
Steven Schmidt is a software developer who has worked on accounting, engineering, clinical lab, and genomic applications. He has a B Math from Univ of Waterloo (Ontario) and an interest in modal & relevance logic and self-referential paradoxes.
Steven started writing poetry in 1977. He has had poems published in Soundings, Zephyr, Hookah, and Xanadu, sometimes under the name Steven Zetschka. He has made tunes for poems by Johnny Arp, William Blake, Emily Rogers, Mitzi Grossman, Raymond Patterson, Jack Kerouac, Kathaleen Donnelly, and Adam Fisher.
Steven was active in the Great South Bay Poetry Cooperative. He has participated in the Long Island Poetry Collective peer workshop for 11 years, and the Lake Grove Poets peer workshop during the past year.
He hosts the Northport Arts Coalition's monthly Poets in Port readings and organized the Nest of Flames instant book party in April 2008.
One arrest, no convictions.
To write some poems one must walk right to the cliff edge and to revise them, look down.
Praise:
"There once was a poet named Schmidt
who wrote of some fantastic stuff.
I could listen for days,
not know what he says,
but be glad just to be part of it."
-Barbara Reiher-Meyers
Read Steven's Blog and visit his MySpace page.