Max Schwartz

Lately, I've found more printed poetry by Max, collected from another deceased poet.

Max was a long-time friend and graced me with visits to my home and poetry readings I set up for him on Long Island. What a unique talent. He also took some of the best photos of me and my family that I've ever had. What a good man--a strange and peaceful man, a real force in poetry. David B. Axelrod

I knew Max in Los Angeles when he was at UCLA after his motorcycle accident. I was a kid of 15 and he was very kind to me. My dad managed the apt. in Bel Aire where he and some roommates lived. I remember those dinners. I think once he made lamb and it was delicious. Also he turned me on to jazz, and was a big jazz buff. Funny what you remember. I'm glad to know that he kept living his wide-open life.

I was sorry to hear about Max. I knew him from Noe Valley Poets in San Francisco in the 1970s when Noe Valley
had the Meat Market Coffee House, and low-income artists.Every once in awhile I'd run into him back in Noe Valley or at the North Beach fair. It was hard to publish Max's poems - they were so spoken word. I went to Minnie's also. Sincerely, Alice Rogoff

I just found out that Max had passed. I haven't seen Max in many years but often checked out his poetry on line. I shared an apartment with Max and Jim and Rich at the top of Roscamare Rd
when we were at UCLA. Friday nights was flank steak soaked all day in wine, some additional wine with dinner and poetry. I remember Jim making his movie of Max and Liz and only saw it again last year, since College. There was nobody like Max. He was Jim's inspiration in so many ways. Max liked to go...

R.I.P. Max

i knew Max in college at UCLA. I had no idea what he had become and accomplished. I just saw a PBS movie on Jim Morrison who we hung out with and that let me to find about Max. amazing...would love to be in contact with any family

Max... rest peacefully now... Shall always remember you and your passion for life, peace, poetry, humanity... Thanks for sharing your poetry, spirit and wisdom...So glad I met you and karen back in 92 in Woodstock xxx

Hard to imagine this power stilled.We did innumerable events in san francisco, at minnie's can-do club and elsewhere. Never reading, always reciting, a love of jazz & travel. Max once fasted on only liquids for something like 9 months in protest of the san quentin writers' workshop being closed down, coming off the fast to eat Jeannie Hahn's Korean beef- not a great idea! But he made it. All love & many stories! Would love to have taken Max to Chiapas to be part of another revolution!