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Hell never finished high school, instead moving to New York City to make his way as a poet.

In New York he met fellow young poet, David Giannini, and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico for several months, where Giannini and Meyers co-founded " Genesis: Grasp ".

They used an AM VariTyper with changeable fonts to publish the magazine.

They began publishing books and magazines but decided to go their separate ways in 1971, after which Hell created and published Dot Books.

Before he was twenty-one his own poems were published in numerous periodicals, ranging from Rolling Stone to the New Directions Annuals.

Along with Tom Verlaine, in 1971 Hell also published under the pseudonym Theresa Stern, a fictional poet whose photo was actually a combination of both his and Verlaine's faces, in drag, superimposed over one another to create a new identity.