New Biographical Note

Don started out as a social scientist. He holds a Ph.D. In Social Psychology and a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Physics. One of his best mentors was a phenomenologist who taught him to focus on exact descriptions of what he sees, often going way beyond the obvious.

What Don has evolved is a way to make hypotheses about what things really are. He believes that it's not necessary to reproduce things like a camera, but it is essential to do what human beings do, try to figure out what we are seeing and codify essences into something that hangs together like a system. Don is more of a theorist than a story-teller, making theories and models.

Don has previously published many volumes of poetry, his first in 1996. He is featured in a many print and online publications and his work has been translated into Chinese for cultural exchange abroad. He has won prizes for his work through the Inter-board Poetry Contest. Don is equally comfortable with the visual arts, photography, painting and drawing.