About Greg Masters

When he arrived in Manhattan’s East Village in the mid- 1970s, Greg Masters pounded rock and roll drums in base- ment dives, “alternative” spaces, CBGB and Irving Plaza and attended readings and workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Along with Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart, he edited the poetry magazine Mag City from 1977-1985. In 1977-78, along with a crew of poet comrades, he produced a cable TV show, Public Access Poetry. From 1980-83, he edited the Poetry Project Newsletter. He has worked for a number of book, magazine and web publishers, beginning as a proofreader and copy editor and then for the last 20 years as a managing editor. He has issued 10 books from his Crony Books imprint.

The Complete Thoughts of Greg Masters

January 2022 – A collection of new poems, some of which settle with past bewilderment, some retaliate against immoral acts, while others try to match the lift of music and find delight in hill towns. Freud is imagined as a shrink of the old west and there’s a formula for settling a check for a table with imbibers and non-imbibers.

The 52-page paperback, The Complete Thoughts of Greg Masters (978-0-9998947-4-3), is available for $14.99 from BookBabyAmazon, Barnes and Noble and other online retailers. The ebook edition (978-0-9998947-5-0) is $3.99 and will be available from most online ebook retailers soon.