Steinberg lives at 3905 26th Street, San Francisco CA 94131; his e.mail address is hsteinberg@grin.net, his phone number is 415-643-7039.

The organizations he has been involved with are especially important to Steinberg: "My involvement with the Tucson Poetry Festival, Small Press Traffic, the Guild Complex, and others have had as significant a bearing on my writing as anything."

Steinberg admires many contemporary poets, including Robert Creeley, Adrienne Rich, W.D. Snodgrass, Leslie Scalapino, Bob Perelman, Jerome Rothenberg, Alison Deming, Jane Miller, W.S. DiPiero (especially his translations), Luis Rodriguez, Susan Howe, Ray Gonzalez, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Bruce Weigl, John Balaban, Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael Harper, Cornelius Eady, Daniel X. O'Neil, Juan Felipe Herrera, Reggie Gibson, Martin Espada, Czeslaw Milosz, Russell Edson, Ofelia Zepeda, Rebecca Byrkit, Maxine Chernoff, Eavan Boland, Mei-Mei Bersenbrugge, Jackson Mac Low, Mebd McGuckian, Frank Bidart and Richard Siken. He also lists many poets of yesteryear as important to him, among them Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, C.P. Cavafy, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, George Oppen, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, John Berryman, Edmond Jabes, Francis Ponge, Carlos Drummond De Andrade, Jorge Luis Borges, James Wright, Paul Celan and Howard Nemerov. His favorite critics are Marjorie Perloff and Hugh Kenner

About his tastes in poetry, Steinberg says, "I'm pretty ecumenical. I like much more poetry than I dislike. Among my current interests are: Performance Poetry, Vietnam War Veteran Poetry, contempory Latino poetry. Poems of history. Good old-school formal poetry. Language poetry. I dislike poetry by teenagers, most work that can be labeled "Iowa Poems." Collage and automatic writing techniques are of great interest to me. I'm not a big fan of nature poetry, though I'm partial to poetry coming from the southwest.

"I think we're in a golden age of poetry," he continues. "There is just so much great poetry, so much it is almost impossible to get a handle on everything going on." Two magazines he feels superior poetry can be found in are JackLeg and Grand Street. He also recommends the Guild Complex and its publishing wing, Tia Chucha Press.

See "Excerpt from 'In the Attic of the House of the Dead: March 1-31, 1997'" for a sample of Steinberg's writing. He welcomes feedback about this or any of his works.

Publication Credits

“Collage: Murder Mystery” and “World’s Fair.” Grand Street #45. 1993 series.
“Musical.” Indiana Review, Vol. 17, #1. Spring 1994.
“Four Erotic Poems.” Willow Springs #35. January 1995.
“Old Poem.” Epoch, Vol. 44, #1. 1995.
“Snapshots from a Nuclear Family” and “Burning Birds.” The Writing Path 1: Poetry and Prose from Writers’ Conferences. 1995.
“Coastline.” Grand Street #54. Fall 1995.
“Collage: For Special Services,” and “Collage: Diehard.” Zuzu’s Petals #13. 1995.
“Little Moon #3,” and “Complementarity.” JackLeg #1. Summer 1995.
“White Train.” Puerto del Sol, Vol. 31, #1. Winter 1996.
“American Highways.” Fish Stories Collective #2. 1996.
“Devotion #22.” The Lucid Stone #5. Spring, 1996.
“Biology.” The Antioch Review, Vol. #54, #3. Summer, 1996.
“Little Birds.” Epoch, Vol. 45, #3. 1996.
“Gotta Go.” Quarterly West #43. Autumn/Winter 1996-1997.
“Surrealist Aggression #1” and “Curse.” Diaspora Literary Journal, Vol. 1, #3.
“Collage: The Accesory.” Tomorrow #17.
“Mike.” Fish Stories Collective #3. 1997.
“Klaus Fuchs: After the Cold War.” Hayden’s Ferry Review. Forthcoming.
“Devotion #1” and “Devotion #23.” The Lucid Stone #12. Fall, 1997.
“Garden” and “Parole.” Quarterly West. Forthcoming.
“Emerging Arch.” Five Fingers Review. Forthcoming.

Steinberg also boasts that he is "the author of the world's worst haiku, as found on the bad haiku website."

He has two chapbooks in (or almost in) print: In the Attic of the House of the Dead (Chax Press, Forthcoming); While the Thunder Lasted I Felt Like God (Light and Dust Books, 1997).