Catfish McDaris

Steven "Catfish" McDaris (born 1953) is an American poet and author who is often associated with Allen Ginsberg.

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.

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'. and Blink-Ink Marquette University holds his collected published works and personal papers in their special collections archives.

2010 The Flash Fiction Award at Gypsy, as judged by U.S. Poet Laureate.

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 (with Nathan Beaty), Green Eggs & Ham Press, 1995 Drowning In Your Bloodshot Eyes (with Jim Buchanan), Angelflesh Press, 1995 Catfish In The Pecos, Angelflesh Press, 1996 Magic Buffalo by The Peyote Brothers (with elliott), Angelflesh Press, 1997 Prying (with Charles Bukowski and Jack Micheline), Four-Sep Publications, 1997 Funk/Works (with Mark Sonnenfeld), Marymark Press, 1998 And The Horse You Rode In On, Born Again(st)Christian Press, 1998 The Wolf Pack (with Mark Wisniewski and Wolf Vest), Pariah Press, 1999 Bitchslapped (art by Swanky Mike Tolento), A Pick Pocket Book published by Phony Lid Books, 2002 Maow-Miaou-Editions, Microbe(French/English), 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 (with Ben John Smith) , 2011 Tales From A French Envelope, (with Craig Scott) Ten Pages Press , 2011 Naked Fly Cherry Marijuana, Graffiti Kolkata (India), 2012 Waiting On Nothing, Mad Rush Books , 2012 Jupiter Orgasma, Mad Rush Books , 2013 Hard Cover Thieves of the Wind (with Subhankar Das) 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 (with David Mac) Mac Press in England, 2014 Day 4 (with Alexis Rhone Fancher, John Swain, & Bree) Green Panda Press 2014 66 lines On Your Soul (with Subhankar Das & Kevin Ridgeway) 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