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Author Archives: Max
“Affirming the Outsider’s Eye: Adrienne Rich’s Legacy”
Please enjoy my full-page Adrienne Rich essay in the latest issue of the Indypendent! This piece is very special to me, not just because Rich is one of my role models, but also because it allows me to graft two … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrienne Rich, Bridges, feminism, Indypendent, obituary, poetry
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Goodbye, Sugar City
Sad to learn that Buffalo, NY’s stellar venue Sugar City is closing down. I brought my Richard Hunt show there in January 2010, and they were one of the most well-organized and professional places I’ve ever performed — slightly ironic … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffalo, Colin Dabkowski, displacement, gentrification, Richard Hunt, Sugar City
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Over the Top!
I’ve had a longtime goal of publishing 100 times by my upcoming birthday. Happily, my recent Greenpeace piece (“Greenpiece”?) put me over the top! 101 publications: 47 articles/editorials; 18 poems; 13 essays/creative non-fiction; 10 zines; 8 reviews; and 5 NYT … Continue reading
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Tagged birthday, goals, Jessica Max Stein, publications, zines
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My 9/11 Story
In the early hours of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, I was asleep on Amtrak, traveling down the Hudson after a long weekend at my parents’ place near Albany, going back to my home in New York.
Bert and Ernie’s Big Love
Why do we speculate on the love lives of puppets? Because it tells us so much about ourselves.
A Few Rainbow Connections
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending the opening reception for the new Jim Henson’s Fantastic World exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. And I’ll be commemorating what would have been Hunt’s 60th birthday … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Meehl, Richard Hunt, The Muppets, The Rainbow Connection
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