Harry R. Wilkens
on the other side of
the ragged EDGE...
Harry R. Wilkens was born in 1945 in the French-American garrison town of Kaiserlautern (in the former French Occupation Zone of Germany), nicknamed 'K-Town' by the GIs. While many of his schoolfriends left for the USA, he remained in Europe, writing newspaper articles and poetry in German and French. From 1977 to 1981 he published an anarchist quarterly called CONFLICT, in Bavaria. In September 1977 he founded with some Docker poets the DOCKER Movement for a free, non-academic poetry to be accessible to everybody.
His poems have appeared in many magazines in Europe, in Asia and in the USA. Selected poems were published in 1997, in The Hit Man, translated into Arabic. Other collections are Terre Promise, Zombies, Pig's Hell, Piss Talks, Un
autre monde and Abyss.
Harry R. Wilkens has been living in Geneva since 1991.