Wilder once claimed himself a writer trapped inside a person’s body. He is also the father of fauxbrow, a visionary American art and attitude that combines newbrow and fauvism with a pronounced, ethereal wonder.

KC Wilder‘s art is often hard to pin down, centered on a loss of centrality itself, as seen in this bit from “#45: doggedly resolved”: chewing himself out, in a tailspin everyday … doting on a well-worn bag of bones inside a doghouse! sitting up on slipshod grates contemplating dog-eared rage, the many treats he’s been denied …

Wilder has taught writing at the state university of New York. He learned the craft of writing and inventing poetry from the Pulitzer prize winner Louis Simpson and studied singing and songwriting for several years from a compatriot of Sir Laurence Olivier, the legendary Homeric bard Richard Dyer-Bennet.

KC Wilder‘s talents and ventures in (and out of) cultural pursuits of all kinds cover a vast territory – man of letters, collagist, guitarist, web technician, videographer, free speech activist, shutterbug, naturalist, and a prior U.S. AAU-national champion athlete. He has appeared before stadium-sized crowds with a 40-piece classical ensemble as a baritone soloist, and has roamed throughout America as a vocalist , guitarist and perfomer. In the 90s he was widely known in the zine and mail art worlds for founding a unique music zine as well as dozens of literary journals, including noteworthy indy award-winners.

There’s a sometimes bizarre, sometimes funny, curious way about what Wilder has to say. It’s fantastic and different.

Wilder has availablean indy CD of humorous poetry on bewilderama records. A trained musician as well as man of letters, Wilder strums guitar on some of these ditties in addition to working humorous poetry in cahoots with the astounding Acme Rocket Quartet. Free clips are easily available from www.bewilderama.com and www.frankmedia.com.