Gerald Schwartz has studied with Irish-American poet John Montague,as well as with Joseph Brodsky. He has worked in collaboration with the performance ensemble Solomons Ramada (now Faking Trains), as well as with The Maud Baum Dance Company, The Bellingham Dance Company, Susan Haines, drummer/percussionist Mike Lopez and sound-designer/guitarist Damian Catera. He has work out or forthcoming in Northeast Corridor, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg (AUS), The Skald Review(Wales),  FLIM and POTEPOETZINE  and Big Bridge (online). He also reviews for RAINTAXI, Verse and Web Del Sol on the Web. His ONLY OTHERS ARE: Poems was released in 2003 by LEGIBLE PRESS (NYC). World was published in 2007 by Furniture Press.