Catfish McDaris


Steven "Catfish" McDaris is an American poet and author who is often associated with Allen Ginsberg. He is also notable for having collaborated with Charles Bukowski.

Biography

McDaris was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1953.
After 3 years serving in the military as a young man, he hopped freights and hitchhiked across the U.S. and Mexico. He built adobe houses, tamed wild horses, made cattle troughs, worked in a zinc smelter, and painted flag poles.
For a time, he lived in a cave and wintered in a Chevy in Denver.
He eventually settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he worked for the United States Postal Service.
In 1994, he organized a charity event of poetry and music in Milwaukee, called Wordstock. During the same year, he also read at The First Underground Press Conference at De Paul University in Chicago.
In 1998, he read at a Beatnik festival held near Allen Ginsberg's farm,
In 2007, he read at Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore in Paris.

Reception and influence

McDaris has published extensively in the small press and independent magazines. He is also often associated with Allen Ginsberg
and collaborated with Charles Bukowski on a chapbook called 'Prying'. In addition, his work has appeared in such publications as The Penny Dreadful Review, Chiron Review, the Shepherd Express
and Blink-Ink Marquette University holds his collected published works and personal papers in their special collections archives.

Awards and nominations

Publications

  • Van Gogh's Ear-Skinner's, Irregular Horse, 1994
  • The Moon Gets Laid Skinner's, Irregular Horse, 1994
  • Pyramids On Mars, KPG Press, 1994,
  • Iguana In Your Pocket, Green Eggs & Ham Press, 1995
  • Drowning In Your Bloodshot Eyes, Angelflesh Press, 1995
  • Catfish In The Pecos, Angelflesh Press, 1996
  • Magic Buffalo by The Peyote Brothers, Angelflesh Press, 1997
  • Prying, Four-Sep Publications, 1997
  • Funk/Works, Marymark Press, 1998
  • And The Horse You Rode In On, Born AgainChristian Press, 1998
  • The Wolf Pack, Pariah Press, 1999
  • Bitchslapped, A Pick Pocket Book published by Phony Lid Books, 2002
  • Maow-Miaou-Editions, Microbe, 2000
  • Tears from Nowhere, Spunk, 2001
  • Coyoacan, JVC Books, 2001
  • A Field Of Dancing Horses, fingerprint press, 2004
  • Making Love To The Rain, Propaganda Press, 2010
  • Dancing Naked On Bukowski's Grave, Horror, Sleaze, Trash Press, 2011
  • Tales From A French Envelope, Ten Pages Press, 2011
  • Naked Fly Cherry Marijuana, Graffiti Kolkata, 2012
  • Waiting On Nothing, Mad Rush Books, 2012
  • Jupiter Orgasma, Mad Rush Books, 2013 Hard Cover
  • Thieves of the Wind Writing Knights Press, 2014
  • Cannibal Sunflowers Writing Knights Press, 2014
  • Resurrection of a Sunflower Collated and 10 pages by Catfish McDaris
525 pages
  • Dreaming With Frida Kahlo 200 pages
  • Magic Coyote Rain Dance 24 pages
  • The Ass Of The Statue Of Liberty 24 pages
  • Blue Throat Of Day 170 pages
  • Ghosts of the War Elephants 144 pages
  • Rock ‘N’ Roll Poetry Poesie Rock “N’ Roll
joint French/English mini-Chap with Eric Dejaeger
  • Talking Shit and Doing the Funky Chicken with John D Robinson
  • Meat Grinder with Donald Armfield 147 pages
  • Buffalo Nickels, Grandma Moses Press, 2014
  • Switcheroo Mac Press in England, 2014
  • Day 4 Green Panda Press 2014
  • 66 lines On Your Soul Graffiti Kolkata India 2014
  • Naked Serial Killers In Volkswagens Weekly Weird Monthly, Austin, Texas 2015
  • No Blindfold No Cigarette Black Dharma Press Dynatox Ministries, NJ 2015
  • Sleeping With the Fish Pski's Porch Lockport, NY
ψ 27 Hammerheads Circling Ever Closer 315 pages