Porter, Bern

Biography He was born in Maine and studied at Colby College and Brown University. He spent the last decades of his life living in Belfast, Maine. [edit] As artist Porter is best known for his "founds," which he has published in numerous collections including Found Poems, The Wastemaker, The Book of Do's, Dieresis, Here Comes Everybody's Don't Book, and Sweet End. Publishers of these works included Something Else Press, The Village Print Shop, and Tilbury House. Late in his life a series of short books and pamphlets by Porter were published by Roger Jackson Publishers in Ann Arbor, including Th...