Joseph Nicks

Born: Detroit MI 1956
Began writing: 1962
Biologist since: 1963
Began writing poetry: 1979
Migrant to: Long Beach CA 1979
Exile (self-imposed): 1984-1985
Noncarnivorous since: 1984
Agnostic since: 1984
Began seriously writing poetry: 1984
Employed biologist since: 1985
Founded The Magnesium Pie Otherground : 1989
Degree: B.S., Terrestrial Zoology, CSULB 1991
Taught: mostly middle/high school 1996-2012
Teaching Credentials:
1) CLAD multi-subject, CSUDH 2001
2) single subject (bio sciences), CCTC 2013
Founding member of The Grist Minstrels (with Al Borie, Bill Corey, Brian Bawinkel) 2004
Migrant to: Mojave Desert 2007
Died: TBD
Proposed epitaph: He wanted to change the world, but he couldn’t find a big enough diaper…