Dougie Padilla is a MN/WI poet and artist. He has published four chapbooks and four full length books of poetry. He is largely an autodidact, but learned much from years around Robert Bly. His poetry loves have included Hart Crane, Dylan Thomas, Blake, Lorca, Gary Snyder, Su Tung Po, Ikkyu, and Hafez. Dougie writes in many styles, from lyric to memoir to haiku. He writes about Minnesota and his Norwegian/Mexican/cowboy roots, about Lake Pepin, about hippie daze and ashram life in India, about love and family, about the state of the world, about Mind itself. He reads his poetry in coffee shops, bars, bookstores, and museums across the region. Of his work Gary Snyder has said: " What a pleasure to read your poems, they are just right. And that's not easy."