PaulMatsumoto’s Profile

An ordinary man living in extraordinary times. Moved by human rights issues I separately met and marched with Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and Cesar Chavez at a very young age. Encouraged by new found friendships I jammed with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix at 15 and ranted poetry with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alan Ginsberg, and Richard Brautigan in the years after that.
And for 3 decades I settled into personal counseling, high risk prisoner rehabilitation, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, and
inner city school tutoring with my good friend, Isaac Hayes.
Recently I have been encouraged back into a favorite haunt, poetry.
I am very proud of my good friends, the poets of passion and humanity
who give light back to our sometimes dark, forbidding world.