Under the Green Dome
The author was a published poet at age 19. At 21, while attending St. John’s University, English Department Chairman Fr. Patrick McDarby said he was “astounded” by the author having recounted in a thirty page paper a personal journey through hell, using terza rima rhyme, modeled
Author Biography
on Dante’s Inferno. It remains in the university’s archives. At the University of Minnesota he wrote Travel Lightly, which professor Joseph Maiolo described as “extraordinary.” The author attended the University of Oregon as a Master of Fine Arts candidate, and wrote Long Distance and Baby Jesus. Chairman Richard Lyons called it a “tour de force.” The author moved to Laguna Beach in 1985. He gained notoriety as a columnist for The Laguna Beach Coastline News. In 1992, he wrote The Golden State and Under the Green Dome, causing the “Laureate of Laguna” Robert Stevens Challman to pronounce him “the best writer in town.” The author now resides in southern Nevada.
a utopian myth
by
Michael P. Gareri
by
Michael P. Gareri
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