![]() After selling more than a dozen screenplays, and his first novel, BOHEMIAN HEART (St. He wrote more than 75 trailer campaigns, mostly for Columbia Pictures. ![]() He moved to Los Angeles in 1980 to pursue a career in screenwriting, selling his first screenplay to Motown while still a student at UCLA. He's one of the new breed of populist poets who has something to say, quite clearly, about life on the wild side." Ferlinghetti later said, "James Dalessandro has given a rebirth to American poetry. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, and Gary Snyder to the seaside town of Santa Cruz, CA breaking attendance records, with 2,000+ people gathering at the Civic Auditorium each night. At the time, it was the nation's largest annual literary festival, bringing together the likes of Charles Bukowski, William S. After seeing a documentary on the Beat Poets, he packed his bags and hitchhiked to San Francisco, but upon his arrival, was told he was “10 years too late to be part of it.”Īt age 23, he founded The Santa Cruz Poetry Festival, with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ken Kesey serving as its director from 1973 - 1977. ![]() He attended Valley Forge High School, studied journalism at Ohio University, and screenwriting at UCLA Film School. James Dalessandro was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and started writing poems and short stories at age six. ![]()
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