Born: 1941   Flint , MI
Parents: John A. and Elsie Dudley Sinclair
Spouse: Magdalene (Leni)
Children: Marion Sunny, Celia
Address(es):
Permanent :
c/o 420 Cafe, Oudebrugsteeg 27
1012 JN Amsterdam  
The Netherlands
Contact Information:
Website : http://www.johnsinclair.us
Email : [email protected]

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	It's All Good: A John Sinclair Reader - A collection of the writing, reviews and interviews of John Sinclair, spanning forty years and personally selected by the author.	Non Fiction , Poetry	Adult	London : Headpress	2009
	Guitar Army: Rock and Revolution with The MC5 and the White Panther Party - The updated Guitar Army includes two dozen previously unpublished period photographs, recent writings from John Sinclair, and an introduction from Michael Simmons that leads the reader through the revolutionary times to Sinclair’s life today.	Non Fiction	Adult	Los Angeles, Calif : Process	2007
	Fattening Frogs for Snakes : Delta Sound Suite	Poetry	Adult	New Orleans, LA : Surregional Press	2002
	We Change the Beat : Selected Poems	Poetry	Adult	Roseville, MI : Ridgeway Press	1988
	I Can't Be Satisfied	Poetry		Cleveland, Ohio : Alternative Press	1984
	The Lesson of Goose Lake	Poetry		Rainbow Trucking Co.	1973
	Guitar Army; Street Writings/Prison Writtings (essays)	Non Fiction	Adult	New York ; Douglas Books/World Pub	1972
	Music and Politics (essays)	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : World Publishing	1971
	People of the State of Michigan, plantiff, vs. John Sinclariir, defendent	Non Fiction		Detroit, MI : Ortis & Ravitz	1969
	Meditations : A Suite for John Coltrane	Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI : Artists' Workshop	1967
	Fire Music : A Record	Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI : Artists' Workshop	1966
	The Poem for Warner Stringfellow	Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI " Artists' Workshop	1966
	This is Our Music	Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI : Artists' Workshop Press	1965
	- Poems and essays appear in numerous anthologies	Poetry

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "My writing is derived from the African-American cultural tradition, particularly from the work of the great African-American song lyricists Little Walter Jacobs, Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson and Don Robey, and from the jazz rhythms of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Cecil Taylor, Theonious Monk, Sony Rollins, Gene Ammons, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Ornette Colman and their peers in modern music. LeRoi Jones (Ameer Baraka), A. B Spellman, James Baldwin, Billie Holiday and Toni Morrison-among thousands of others have taught me intelligence and its rhythmic applications. That I am of Scotch-Irish-English descent only underscores the effect of the African-American cultural tradition in shaping my work. I must also name the poets Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller; the exhilerating experience of inhabiting the city of Detroit; and the three years I spent as a prisoner of the State of Michigan as prime forces in my life to date."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
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John and Leni Sinclair Papers (1957-1999) are at the Bentley Historical Library.

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