Jackson Mac Low, b. Chicago, 12 September 1922 – d. New York, 8 December 2004, made poems, essays, and musical, performance, visual, and radio works. Author of about 30 (plus four posthumous) books and published in over 90 collections. His works have been published, exhibited, and performed—often by poet and visual artist Anne Tardos and himself—in many countries. Awards: Guggenheim, NEA, NYFA, and CAPS fellowships and the 1999 Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets.