Sailing through Cassiopeia

The only American poet who also had a career as a race-car driver and was honored with a limited edition replica of his car

Dan Gerber is an ordained Zen priest

Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison’s book Braided Creek (Copper Canyon, 2003) is dedicated to Gerber

Gerber’s work has appeared in many national publications, including The New Yorker; Poetry; Playboy; Sports Illustrated; The Nation
Some events that have undoubtedly affected Gerber’s work: The near-death experience of my crash at Riverside is one of those, and even more traumatic was my divorce from and the subsequent death of my wife of 31 years. These are points of departure around which you think of everything else as having happened before or after.