My name is Alan Barysh I have been a conductor for John Cage, The Poet In Residence for the year 2000 at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a printer for the Black Panther Party. a union shop steward for the Amalgamated Municipal Employees Union and the Industrial Union of Maine And Ship Builders of America, the last winner of the Baltimore City Paper, winner of the 1983 Baltimore's Best Award and yje author of over 170 books