About Bo Young

Bo Young is Poetry Editor of White Crane Journal.

Bo is a writer, journalist, editor, poet, cook, publicist and development consultant. In addition to his contributions to White Crane Journal, his writings have appeared in Fine Cooking Magazine, RFD, POZ Magazine, the Village Voice, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, the Palm Springs Sun and the New York Times, as well as Prozak-worthy cranky letters to the editor in papers and magazines too numerous to mention here. His personal poetic pantheon runs along the lines of Auden, Broughton, Rumi, Whitman and Yeats. He is the author of First Touch (White Crane Press, 1998).... not surprisingly, a book of romantic poetry.

 

In addition to serving as Poetry Editor for White Crane Journal, Bo is Food Editor for RFD, where his column Communions appears quarterly. A devoted foodie, he is a former caterer in Palm Springs and has cooked in two and three star restaurants in Los Angeles, New York City and East Hampton. He now cooks for spiritual ceremonies and gatherings from Maine to Oregon.

 

Originally from Chicago, via San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Springs and Connecticut, Bo now lives in Brooklyn with his beloved partner Bill Foote. He is writing a biography of Clyde Hall, a Native American medicine elder. He is 52, but he reads at a 60-year-old level and can still lift heavy things.

 

Please submit poetry directly to Bo's address. It's best to submit only a poem or two at a time and best that they relate somehow to the featured topic of upcoming issues. (Please don't send a sheaf of random poetry in hopes he'll find something he likes.) Also please don't expect an immediate reply. Bo keeps a file of poetry submitted. What we don't use in the upcoming issue, we may want to use in a future issue. (Of course, don't send original copies or one-of-a-kind transcriptions, because you probably won't get them back.)

 

Bo's mailing address is:

Bo Young
172 Fifth Ave #69
Brooklyn NY 11217

 

You can send him email directly from THIS page.

WhtCraneJournal@aol.com