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Gabriel Ariel Levicky was born in the former Czechoslovakia into the family of the Holocaust survivors. After going through the series of indoctrinated school system, he accomplished basic education and soon after joined the ranks of many skeptics.

This "protective coat" allowed him to see a troubled and confused society from the different point of view and soon he joined the unofficial dissident movement (Charter 77), led by V·clav Havel.

As a young poet, inspired by the American Beat and music, he embarked on his own search and clandestinely published his first book of poetry Nezn·ma Poèzia (The Unknown Poetry) in 1977-79.

In 1979 he decided to escape the persecution by the State Security and via number of neighboring countries managed to make it to Italy and to the USA.

After a brief sting in NYC, he left for California and settled in San Francisco where he had ran a series of poetry readings as well as got involved with a renewed Beat magazine publication Beatitude, commemorating the late, great American poet Bob Kaufman. In San Francisco he published his second book of poetry The Unknown Poetry # 2, directly linking it to his first Slovak publication.

After so called Velvet Revolution in his native country, GAL has returned back for a short period as deputy editor-in-chief of the bi-weekly Mosty newspaper, published in Prague (in 1996).

Upon returning to the US, he decided to resettle back in NY where he lives since then. He is involved with many poetry projects and readings, ran his own reading Hear & Now in the Raven Cafè in the East Village and has been published in numerous publications nationally and worldwide.

His new poetry collection B(lack) & W(hite) Wet Paint Poems, encompassing his NY experience, has been published and released by Xlibris and is available on the Web via: Xlibris, Amazon, Borders, and Barnes & Noble.

He is also a recent author (as Emir Gabpashaberger, the founder and destroyer of Jews For Jihad, orgasmization) of his sporadic, weekly socio-political farce and lampoon, reflecting these trying & hilarious times, poking his below the belt hits at almost everything and everybody. In his spare time ~ he still draws cartoons and constructs collages, called Gablevages.

He can be reached at gablev@gmail.com