don't know if I would call Jackson Mac Low an influence on my development as a writer, but what the hell. I recall discovering his work via the Net, then searching out his books at the library. yeah, I don't write like Mac Low at all, but his methods of composition(s) got me to think about writing and reading in, for me, completely new ways. so, yeah, he was an influence. more so than anybody I've read because he opened previously unknown doors to me. how words taken apart and reorganized become words. how writing is part of the art of living because chance is so much part of both processes. and so much more, of course.