Jack Micheline, born Harvey Martin Silver, was an American painter and poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. He was one of San Francisco's original Beat poets and an innovative artist who participated in the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. Micheline was born in the Bronx, New York City on November 6, 1929, and later became an important figure in the San Francisco literary and artistic scene. He died in San Francisco on February 27, 1998.