Sparrow Papers ca. 1970-2000

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Sparrow Papers ca. 1970-2000

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Sparrow is a longtime poet/activist/musician of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and a member of the literary group, the Unbearables. He has published several chapbooks of poetry in collaboration with the St. Mark's Poetry Project and other poetry organizations, and he has served as the editor for the literary journal Big Fish. He has been published in The New Yorker, as well as The Quarterly, and The New York Times. The Sparrow Papers are a diverse collection of materials including manuscripts, notes, journals, travelogues, handwritten signs, and periodicals.

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Sparrow is a longtime poet/activist of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He has published several chapbooks of poetry in collaboration with the St. Mark's Poetry Project and other poetry organizations, and he has served as the editor for the literary journal Big Fish. He gained notoriety in 1995 by picketing The New Yorker, holding a sign that read, "My poetry is as bad as yours." Since then, he has been published in that magazine as well as The Quarterly and The New York Times. In 1996, he ran ...