found: SFGate, via WWW, viewed Jan. 31, 2017(in article dated Jan. 2, 2017: David Meltzer, the prolific poet and musician who merged his two passions, creating work that goes back to the Beat generation and San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and '60s, has died; he was 79; died Saturday [Dec. 31, 2016] at his home in Oakland; jazz historian; wrote more than 40 volumes of poetry; raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.; in the 1960s, having relocated to the Bay Area, Mr. Meltzer was a singer-songwriter and guitarist for Bay Area bands that included the psychedelic folk-rock group Serpent Power; also played the piano, mandolin and harmonica, often performing at Bay Area venues with his late wife, Tina; from 1977 to 2007, he taught in the Humanities and Graduate Poetics programs at the New College of California in San Francisco)