Year	Life	Art
2005	Whereabouts Unknown	New collection, From Anselm to Selma: The Alabama Slammer Years, rumoured in production.
2003	Temporarily surfaces in Berkeley, California, suffering effects of the bite of a recluse spider.	Named among American Poets of the Last Three Years
2002	Second place in Provo Poetry Slam Finals for reciting his own work, "Minibuses Only, ABSOLUTELY NO STANDING: The Olympic Village Directional Signs Collection"	"Hotsy Totsy Club" poems appear in blogosphere, likened by some to "Lara Poems" for contemporary impact.
2001	His death is rumoured following his disappearance following the WTC collapse. Dovetonsils surfaces in a metal scrap yard in Xinhua, China, three weeks after the attacks, where he has been delivering lectures to the Peoples' Steel Collective No. 282. Returns temporarily to New York in search of cheap downtown apartment.	Not Yet Selected Poems selected for publication.
2000-present	Travels extensively, appearing at poetry events randomly, often submitting his work via post cards.	First widespread exposure of audiences to his work. Not Yet Selected Poems collected.
1999	Renounces poetry temporarily and works as a web designer for Pets.com, Sunnyvale, California. Leaves under circumstances not disclosed. Continues work as itinerant web lackey off and on for next six years.
1998	Homeless, relying upon kindness of friends for shelter.	Slim Volume of Poems and Poetry published, AD's first traditionally-published work, appears.
1996	Invited to be a resident fellow at The New College in Toronto, appears at new faculty orientation at New College, Florida, and is arrested after challenging the Provost to a fistfight. She later drops the charges.	Expelled from the Pre-Pretentiously Difficults.
1995	Manhattan. Exposure earns him a day job as a messenger in the garment industry.	"Gassn' 4 Gas" Event, Benny's Burritos, Avenue A, New York establishes Dovetonsils' reputation with important New York food critics.
1992-1995	Lost Years
1992	Hired as "Wordtender" by Hard Rock Cafe, Orlando, quits after three days over 'creative differences' with the sous-chef.
1990-1991	Temporary Office Worker, San Francisco. Lives in Mission District after being evicted from basement apartment in City Lights bookstore.
1989	Travels in Europe; accidental involvement in fall of Berlin Wall. Works as foot massager at Youth Hostels, Inc. to finance his travels.	From TWA to TGV written; most poems later lost at an Amsterdam Kinko's.
1988	Works his way through rehab as part-time bartender.
1987	Creative Writing Teacher, Evergreen State College. Forced to leave amid controversy the third week of the semester.
1986	AD's internal organs appear in video Death Valley 69, by director Richard Kern.	Forbidding Doors finished, AD fails to find a publsher.
1985	Shreds Tony Hawk in Poetry Skate-Off Event at New York's Tompkins Square Park; first public reputation emerges in 'zine and hardcore punk communities.	Seattle Sewing Circle, sold via an ad in Fact Sheet Five "for sale or trade".
1984	Earns BI, Brooklyn University.	Thesis poem, "The Epoch Poem".
1980	Good Attendance Certficate, Naropa Junior Community College.	Poet Alan Ginzburg discovers his poetry in a men's bathroom outside Tempe, Arizona, and takes on Dovetonsils as his protege. Joins the Exclusionsists.
1979	Working as a coffee jerk at the Billy Goat Tavern, Chicago	"Attitudes and Platitudes" poem cycle appears in Pan American Airlines in-flight magazine, but lack of response encourages AD into new directions.
1978	Joins Merchant Marines, ships around the world until discharged in early 1979 for "inappropriate seasickness in the line of duty."	Unpublished "Lifeboat Instructions" poems show early stylistic similarities to AD's mature work.
1976-1977	Professional Hobo, Western United States
1975	Runs away at age of fifteen. Found by authorities attending public school under an assumed name in Piscataway New Jersey. Subsequently returned home, he runs away for the second and last time.	Poem "#%$&)@)!" appears in heavily censored form in his only high school yearbook.
1973	Enters High School cadet class a year early.	First Published Poem, juvenalia "Death Embrace Me, M*th*rf*ck*r!" published in Weekly Reader
1972	Sent to Sheldon R. Weinberg Military Academy	Writes Projectilist Manifesto (published 1988).
1968	Parents reward good behavior by sending AD to Elvis' Comeback Special. AD allegedly can be seen in one wide shot of surviving footage of the event.
1965	Parents marry, divorce. Anselm begins pattern of breaking into foster homes and asking for shelter.
1962	AD's voice appears as an overdub on the LP by the group The Thumpers; he can be heard yelling "Bring it On!" on the title track, "Another Poem About More Stuff, This Time Set to Music"
1960	AD appears as the body double for Stan and Jane Brackhage's infant child, later collected in in Dog Star Man. (Unsuccessfully sues Brackhage for back royalties, 1988.)
1959	AD born to Percy Dovetonsils and Patricia "Happy" Donuts, Ebbetts Field Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, America.

^*Note: not all details of this timeline have been verified.