ISSUE 2
December 2001


MILKWOOD REVIEW




David Watts
SPOKEN WORD: "PRIVACY PLEASE," "CHEMOTHERAPY"


David Watts grew up in Central Texas and trained first as a musician then as a medical doctor. He was on-camera host for PBS, Lifetime Network and local television news in the 1980's and was a live radio host on KQED-FM. His commentaries on the practice of medicine can be heard on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. His practice of medicine and gastroenterology is at the University of California, San Francisco - where he teaches in the medical school. In 1992 he earned a Masters in English/Poetry from San Francisco State University and now teaches poetry at the Fromm Institute.

His poetry has been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Antioch Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The New Virginia Review and other magazines.

His books include Taking The History (Nightshade Press) and Making (Talent House). Making was awarded the Talent House Prize in 1999.

He is currently working on a television special examining the relationship between poetry and medicine and lives with his wife, Joan Baranow, and four-year-old son in Mill Valley, California.

Both "Chemotherapy" and "Privacy Please" feature David Watts, voice and accoustic bass and Robert Markison, saxaphon, flute, trumpet, recorder, lapsteel guitar, keyboard and wind synthesizers, accoustic and sythesized percussion. The poems ppear on the Word of Mouth CD Powerful Seeds. Poetry copyright 2000 Watts and Baranow. Music copyright 2000, Markison. Privacy Please was originally aired on NPR.



To Order:
Taking the History

To Visit:
Word of Mouth Poetry and Jazz