Mike Tyler

Proud son of Manhattan (Greenwich Village), a favorite student of Frank McCourt (where he won his high school’s top creative writing awards while dropping out), a literary influence on musicians (“Beck fell under the charismatic spell of poet performer Mike Tyler” Spin Magazine), inspiration to artists (Banksy tagged Tyler’s line “only the ridiculous survive” outside London’s Paddington station and credits Tyler in “Wall and Piece”) wild boy of the Nuyorican Poet’s Café Scene where he famously broke his arm while reading a poem with his (“angular concatenations of slogans and epiphanies that seem cryptic and frighteningly obvious at the same time” Voice Literary Supplement) a (“hyper-kinetic” ArtForum), worldwide touring performer (“Ezra Pound out of Beavis and Butt-head” The London Sunday Times), and former resident poet at NYC’s Carlton Arms Hotel where his book “From Colorado to Georgia” is available in every room (“a big luscious book, a piece of salvation from the most brilliant of his generation” about.com), MIKE TYLER is a writer of "language always invigorating, carefully deranged and almost magical" Santa Barbara Independent.