Pushcart Prize-nominated poet Rich Ferguson has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Wanda Coleman, Moby, and other respected poets and musicians. In 2022, he received an artist-in-residence grant from the Valparaiso Foundation in Spain. He is a featured performer in the film What About Me? featuring Michael Stipe, k.d. lang, and others. His poetry and award-winning spoken-word music videos have appeared in numerous anthologies and festivals, and he was a winner in Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match, L.A. He is the author of the poetry collections 8th & Agony (Punk Hostage Press), Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates (Moon Tide Press), Somewhere, a Playground, and the novel New Jersey Me (Rare Bird Books). Ferguson is the lead editor of an anthology of CA poets titled Beat Not Beat (Moon Tide Press).
Rich’s 2018 winning videopoem “Things About Myself and the World That I Will and Won’t Explain to My Year-Old Daughter When She’s Older” was directed by Victor Guzman.
His 2019 Honorable Mention “In the Gomorrah of Glamour and Gimme All You Can” was directed by Chris Burdick, with music by Eric Carter.