David Ensminger

David Ensminger was born under a plastic Missouri sun in the skinny shadows of trailer parks until his family fled to corn row Illinois, where he began self-publishing poetry and music zines with the help of clunky Xerox machines when he wasn't playing drums in punk bands. He attended seven colleges and universities, stuffing America under his belt, all the while publishing in underground chapbooks and journals like Extra Cheese, Subbild (Germany), Lilliput Review, Flower, Caveat Lector, In the Throes, Fuel, Poesflesh, and many more. As a music journalist, he has also written for Cowboys and Indians, Thirsty Ear, Houston Press, and various zines in Europe. In 1999, he started his own music magazine, Left of the Dial, which can now be found on-line at: www.leftofthedialmag.com. Presently, he teaches in the English Dept. at Western Oregon University as the coast of beatnik Oregon shudders near him.