Paint with Words by Anthony Swann (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692032749)

Anthony Swann was born in 1942 and grew up in Crosslake, Minnesota. After attending college, he lived in Minneapolis, where he co-founded a jazz coffeehouse called the Broken Drum. He has travelled widely and has lived for periods of time in San Francisco and Las Vegas as well as long stints in Mexico and Brazil. Anthony has written poetry most of his life and is very adept at reading it. He has read his work at the University of Minnesota, Bemidji State University, The Loft Literary Center, and various Minneapolis and Las Vegas coffeehouses. In 2006, he was invited to read at The California Legion of Honor in San Francisco. He now lives in Bemidji, Minnesota where he is active in the arts community, and has served on the board of several art organizations. He is a long time member of a local writers group. Anthony is a great lover of jazz and Latin music and is currently finishing his first work of fiction about the jazz world. His hobbies include collecting and sharing books and playing the conga drum.