David Omer Bearden

David Omer Bearden is the surviving brother of twins born in the Sonoran Desert of Blythe, California in 1940. Bearden dedicated his creative life to writing poetry, starting from the post-Beat era, until he passed away in 2008 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

He was also a fiction writer, publisher, composer, traveler, and musician who shared a deep and poetic romance with singer/songwriter Judee Sill. Bearden published three poetry chapbooks of his own: So Long at the Fair & Down at the Palomino Club & Other Poems, 1976, The Rosace in a Star Chamber, 1981, and Redress, 1983. He edited and published in 1965 the anthology Le Feu Du Ciel as well as Dominion, a collection of poems by Alan Russo in 1977. He completed a novel titled The Thing in Packy Innard’s Place whose publication is forthcoming.

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