November 12, 1912 [Detroit, Michigan] – September 24, 1990 [Los Angeles, California]
Zahn published only one volume of poetry, One Extraordinary A.M., in 1964. The Plight of the Lesser Sawyer’s Cricket: Plays, Prose, and Poems appeared in 1987. Zahn himself worked mostly as a newspaper editor and writer, as well as a seaman, poetry reading organizer for Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. He was a conscientious objector in World War II.
