This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Sparrow

Sparrow studied with Ted Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, William Burroughs , Alice Notley, and other esteemed teachers. He has published 11 books. He lives in a  blithe doublewide trailer in Phoenicia, New York with his wife, Violet Snow. Sparrow has written for the Sun magazine since 1981. He’s had four op-Ed  pieces in the New York Times. Sparrow has been published in the New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, Reptiles of the Mind, and other magazines. He is currently running for President of the United States.