Greetings Fellow Wondermachines!
My name is CorBeau. I'm a Latino Radical Faerie living in Chicago, Illinois.

Who Is This CorBeau?

I've lived in Chicago for a year now, but I've travelled quite a bit.
My folks came from Cuba in the 1960s, but I was born and "bred" in South Texas
and have lived in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado.
My undergraduate degrees were in History and Anthropology/Sociology
(two interesting yet not very bankable areas of study ).
After living in the Pacific Northwest for a while,
I spent six years in Denver, Colorado where I attended divinity
school, worked for a few local grass-roots community
non-profits and created poetry and music.

I now live in a great old brownstone in the heart of Humboldt Park,
the Puerto Rican neighborhood of Chicago (you can start
whistling "there is a Rose is Spanish Harlem" now).
Still stretching my wings around this "big shouldered" city.
I know adventures awaits me every day and I look forward to their arrival.

My Fere lives in D.C. so my love is long distance but ever so precious (ain't love grand?)

My main social involvement has been with the eclectic somewhat cheerfully anarchic, nature-centered organizing of Radical Faeries. I also visit and try to support the Radical Faerie Sanctuaries around the country like Wolf Creek in Oregon, Zuni Mountain Sanctuary in New Mexico and Short Mountain in Tennessee.

For Information about the Chicago Radical Faerie Tribe,
check out our website at faeriechicago

I have had the opportunity to befriend and study with Harry Hay,
arguably the father of the modern Gay rights movement, and one
of the founding lights of Radical Faerie consciousness and organizing.

My politics tend towards the authentic, progressive,
grass-roots variety. I try to live as intentionally as I can.
For me that means living life for its lessons and its gifts
and not for some abstract leader or or some other structural monkey gaming.

We are glorious walking wondermachines.
So, we need to celebrate that in the way we live with each other.

CorBeau's Poetry
I've been writing poetry for ten years now (hard to believe). I've published two chapbooks on my own and created various small collections for friends and certain events. I've had the surreal experience of seeing a dozen or so poems published in journals and magazines. I also serve as poetry editor for RFD one of the oldest Gay publications in the country.

My favorite poets and influences of sorts include: James Broughton, Allen Ginsberg, Jane Kenyon, Essex Hemphill, Antler, Audre Lorde, Mary Oliver (my "favoright" living poet), Pablo Neruda (my "favoright" nonliving poet), Adrienne Rich, Walt Whitman and many others. As you might imagine, I read more poetry than any other form of writing.

CorBeau's Music
When I was living in Denver, I used to perform my own music in coffeehouses. But my own tastes in music center along the folk/rock axis of the spectrum (although my musical tastes are REALLLY wide). My faves and sometime influences include, but are not limited to: Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen,(three Canadians in a row, eh?) Mercedes Sosa (from Argentina/Spanish Link), Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan, old Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and one of the genuises of this age, hugely unknown in this country (much to the loss of our music--and in my opinion one of the reasons American lyricism largely sucks today), the great Cuban master of lyricism and melody Silvio Rodriguez(this is a Spanish Link).

MY POETRY - PICTURES O'ME - MY LINKS

Thanks for visiting! You're Visiting Wondermachine since June 2000!

Be well! May you be blessed with bliss!

I LOVE MAIL! WRITE ME AT corbeau@radicalfaerie.com

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