Bruce J. "Jeff" Poniewaz

Bruce J. Poniewaz, commonly known as "Jeff Poniewaz�, was born September 28, 1946, in Milwaukee Wisconsin. His obituary read as follows: Bruce J. �Jeff� Poniewaz of Riverwest, passed away December 13 age 68 from pneumonia after surviving 9 years with stage-4 kidney/lung cancer with a 6-month-to-live prognosis. Born September 28, 1946, Jeff was a former Poet Laureate of Milwaukee and devoted his life to poetry and eco-activism.

Author of Dolphin Learning in the Milky Way, a classic of compelling eco-poems which won a PEN Discovery Award and Ginsberg called �impassioned prescient ecological Whitmanesque/Thoreauvian verve & wit.�