In 1957, Troubadour Press, which published a jazz and poetry magazine called Climax, agreed to bring out a book if Micheline would stagger the lines of each poem to make his verse look more unconventional, and if he would get a "famous person" to write the introduction. Jack Kerouac was sharing an apartment in the building where Micheline was living. Kerouac liked Micheline's work and did him the favor, referring to him as the "Doctor Johnson Zen Master Magee of Innisfree", punning on the title of Yeats' famous poem and "in us free", meaning that Micheline was free inside himself. The book, River of Red Wine, was reviewed by Dorothy Parker in Esquire  magazine (September, 1958, p. 12).

    Proclaiming himself unaffiliated with any group, including the Beats - who he characterized as a product of the media's hustle - Micheline appeared frequently with Beat writers at poetry readings. His work is meant to be read aloud, in the tradition of Beat poetry.

    Micheline began painting in earnest, working primarily with gouache in a self-taught, primitive style, during a trip to Mexico City financed by Franz KIine in 1960.

    Micheline's most recent publication was Sixty-seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints, published by Matt Gonzales in 1997 (FMSBW Press), and republished as a second edition in 1999 with many additional poems, photos and images that did not appear in the first edition.  Click here for more information about Sixty Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints.