Meet Beau Blue, Poetry Columnist for GAS

 Beau Blue is an old man recluse living in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. A systems engineer, he specialized in interfacing computers to machine tools and in networking computer systems. He came to the internet, known at the time as ARPAnet, when he worked with Ford Aerospace and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in the eighties. 

In 1993 he helped start Cruzio Communications, one of the first commercial internet service providers in the USA. He became one of the first internet literary publishers that same year with the introduction of "The Hawk", an arts and literary ezine aimed at engineers and designers. 

He has been publishing Internet poetry since 1995 when he and Michael McNeilley co-edited 'ZeroCity', one of the first poetry Ezines in the country.

Along the way, during his systems design career, he became involved with San Francisco Bay Area musicians and started a band called the Captec Project, "Community of Artists Patronized by Technology". The band appeared in various clubs in the bay area, performing his poetry to fusion and hard rock blues music. The Captec group was well received and an album, "Human Tricks", was produced in 1980 to positive reviews. Blue moved on from the Captec Project's fusion sound to the Alibi Blues and the Back Alley Blues Bands during the mid-eighties.

Blue retired from systems design in 2002 and he began publishing poetry animations with the advent of his third excursion into Internet poetry publication with "Beau Blue Presents". In 2004 "Blue's Cruzio Cafe" came into being and the two publications became part of animatedpoets.com the following year. 

Nowadays, Blue hides in the forest and works at keeping animatedpoets.com a unique and viable addition to the internet poetry landscape.