Michael McClure was born on October 20th, 1932 in Marysville, Kansas. He grew up in Seattle, Washington. As a young man, he participated in a poetry workshop with Robert Duncan in San Francisco, California. In October 1955, McClure was one of the poets who read at the Six Gallery Poetry Reading In San Francisco. In January 1967, he participated in the Human Be-In with Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. He wrote the original lyrics to Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz." In the early 1990's, he began collaborating with Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek in live poetry readings.
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