[the poetry billboard] - the poet : Eric Chaet

Eric Chaet


Eric Chaet: born Chicago, 1945. Baseball, race riots, many jobs, many places. Author of People I Met Hitchhiking On USA Highways, How to Change the World Forever For Better, and Old Buzzard of No-Man's Land. Recorded vinyl LP of songs, Solid and Sound. Hitchhiked back and forth across USA, stapling about 1500 cloth posters (The "Into-Traffic" Signs) he'd silk-screened, to utility poles.

echaet@gbonline.com



POEMS

Beyond Consolation
I Should Not Be Where I Am