1941-1959
Born October 2 at Women’s Hospital, Flint, Michigan
Parents: John Sr. (Jack) and Elsie Sinclair
Sister Kathleen born 1943, brother David born 1945
Attended Davison Public Schools, Davison, Michigan 1959
1959-1964
Attended Albion College, Albion, Michigan, 1959-61
Attended Flint Junior College, 1961
Attended University of Michigan-Flint College. 1962-64
Editor, The Word, UM–Flint
President, UM—Flint Cinema Guild
Graduated UM-Flint, January 1964, A.B. English Literature
1964-67
Attended Wayne State University, Detroit, Graduate School of English
Master’s Thesis: William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch
Convicted of Marijuana Possession, Detroit Recorders Court, sentenced to two years probation
Co-Founder & Director, Detroit Artists Workshop
Founder & Director, Detroit LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana)
Editor & Publisher, Artists Workshop Press
Editor & Publisher, Warren-Forest Sun newspaper
Co-Founder & Director, WSU Artists’ Society
Detroit Correspondent, downbeat Magazine, Chicago
Married Magdalene Arndt, June 1965
Berkeley Poetry Conference. Four Young American Poets Reading
Convicted of Marijuana Possession, Detroit Recorders Court, sentenced to three years probation
Prisoner, Detroit House of Correction, February-August 1966
Co-Editor, Guerrilla: A Newspaper of Cultural Revolution, Detroit
Talent Consultant, Grande Ballroom, Detroit
Author, This Is Our Music, Artists Workshop Press
Author, FIRE MUSIC: a record, Artists Workshop Press
Author, The Poem For Warner Stringfellow, Artists Workshop Press
Author, “A New Song / For A New Year”, Artists Workshop Press Broadside
Author, “Sing The Song”, Artists Workshop Press Broadside
Author, “When A Man / Loves A Woman”, Fenian Head Centre Press Broadside)
Author, “Weathering”, Fenian Head Centre Press Broadside
Editor, Free Poems/Among Friends, Artists Workshop Press
Editor, Detroit Artists’ Worksheet, Artists Workshop Press
Editor (with Robin Eichele), Ten Wayne Poets, Wayne State University
Contributor, Hettie Jones, Editor, Poems Now, Kulchur Press
