RickthePoetWarrior RickthePoetWarrior Biography

RickthePoetWarrior is the pen name of Richard A. Green. Rick was born in New Brunswick, Canada, the middle child of five siblings. He held a variety of interesting jobs including freelancing IT skills, running retail stores, and dabbling in website creation—all of which left him " spiritually exhausted, " and led him to create his poetic alter ego, RickthePoetWarrior, to give voice to his viewpoints and promote his politics in an entertaining manner. Green has been homeless since 2004. He hitchhikes and bikes around British Columbia, wintering in Victoria and more recently spending summers in Revelstoke.

The poetry of RickthePoetWarrior makes frequent use of puns and creative wordplay, keeping the reader simultaneously hooked, amused, and eagerly anticipating the next unexpected turn of phrase..His cynical viewpoint he blames on his lineage. " Half Irish, half Polish, I like forcing the round peg into the square hole, just to piss off my counsel."