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Max Blagg is a British poet, writer, and performer. Blagg has performed in New York City since 1973. [1] He is a visiting lecturer in poetry at The New School in New York City (continuous from 2005).
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Max Blagg is a British poet, writer, and performer. Blagg has performed in New York City since 1973. [1] He is a visiting lecturer in poetry at The New School in New York City (continuous from 2005).
Max Blagg was born in 1948 [2] [3] at Retford, England, where he was a childhood friend of the actor Philip Jackson. [4] Both were educated at Retford King Edward VI Grammar School and were together in the same class from 1959 until 1966. Blagg was elected House Captain in 1961. At the end of his second year he was elevated to the junior fourth form as one of the top 18 of the 78 students in that year. In 1965 he was appointed as a school prefect. He left school with GCE A levels in English, French & German. On Speech Day he was awarded the Sir Stuart Goodwin Merit Prize for a special paper in English [5] and was later accepted by London's North Western Polytechnic, which later became part of London Metropolitan University, now the University of North London. He received a Bachelor of Arts Lit. [partial] degree.
Blagg states he moved to New York City in 1973, although on other occasions gives the date as 1971. [6] or 1972. [7]
In 1992, his poem "What Fits?" was the soundtrack to a commercial for Gap jeans. [8]
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==Works==
The venues where Blagg has performed include the Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Jackie 60, Cable gallery, Nuyorican's Poet's café, St Marks Church, Bowery Poetry Club, CBGB, Sybarite, KGB Bar, Performing Garage and Mudd Club.[ citation needed ]
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