RIP: ‘My Flashlight Was Attacked by Bats’: Farewell to poet Marty Christensen | Oregon ArtsWatch

‘My Flashlight Was Attacked by Bats’: Farewell to poet Marty Christensen | Oregon ArtsWatch:

William Burroughs & Marty Christensen

Marty died Jan. 5th -- I hadn't known. When I was editor of Sweet Reason and published several of his poems, he was tickled pink because even that long ago (early 80s) he had fallen through the cracks unless you'd been in Pdx a while. He was an eccentric, talented poet and painter, who drank too much, as so many do. He died two days short of his 70th birthday.