March 20, 1928 [Los Angeles] – April 22, 1979 [Los Angeles]
Meyers was the son of Sephardic Jewish parents who emigrated from Spain to Brooklyn and then settled in Los Angeles. He grew up in East Hollywood and attended John Marshall High (where he was a gymnast) but left high school to become a master picture framer and gilder. Though he did not attend college, Meyers was admitted to the Claremont Graduate School based on the strength of his poetry and earned a PhD (or did he?). He taught at Pitzer College. His collected poems, In a Dybbuk’s Raincoat, which he edited and arranged before he died, appeared in 2007 from the University of New Mexico Press.
