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Paul Fericano

Paul Fericano

Author's Bio

Paul Fericano is the co-founder of the first parody news syndicate, Yossarian Universal News Service (1980). His poetry and satires have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Quarterly, Second Coming, Poetry Now, The Realist, Free Lunch, The Wormwood Review, Punch (London), and Krokodil (Moscow). He is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, including Commercial Break, Driving to Reno with Freud, and Loading the Revolver With Real Bullets. He is also the co-author (with Elio Ligi) of the political satire, The One Minute President. In 1982 his poem, Sinatra, Sinatra, was awarded the infamous Howitzer Prize and then dutifully exposed by the author as a literary hoax. Paul is the editor of The Broadsider and a part-time resident of both San Francisco and Santa Barbara, California.

Publications and Prizes

Books:
The One-Minute President (with Elio Ligi) (Poor Souls Press, 1987), Commercial Break (Poor Souls Press, 1982), Loading The Revolver With Real Bullets (Second Coming Press, 1977)
Chapbooks:
The Three Stooges at a Hollywood Party (24th Street Irregular Press, 2011), It's Not Enough of Elvis (Poor Souls Press, 2009), Interview with the Scalia (Peace & Pieces Press, 1995), Sinatra, Sinatra (Poor Souls Press, 1982), Driving to Reno with Freud (Malfunction Press, 1978), Cancer Quiz (Scarecrow Books, 1977)
Anthologies:
But Buddy I’m a Kind of Poem: A Sinatra Anthology (Entasis Press, 2008), A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Greenwood Press, 2002), The Starving Poets' Cookbook (Free Lunch Arts Alliance, 1994), Contemporary American Poetry (Rowman & Littlefield, 1985), Italo-american Poets, a Bilingual Anthology (Carello Editore, 1985), The Comic Spirit (Genre: A Thematic Journal Published by the Students of the Dept. of Comparative Literature , 1983), 19 + 1: An Anthology of San Francisco Poetry (Second Coming Press, 1978), Stoogism Anthology (Scarecrow Books, 1977), California Bicentennial Poets Anthology (Second Coming Press, 1976)
Journals:
ASKeW, Attention Please, Aura Literary Arts Review, Berkeley Barb, Bogg, Circus Maximus, Cream City Review, Free Lunch, Gallimaufry, Green Fuse, Greenfield Review, Hard Pressed, Heavy Bear , Hollow Springs Review, Hyperion, Image, Impact, In a Nutshell, Jean's Journal, Kaleidoscope, Krokodil, Medusa's Kitchen, Mickle Street Review, Mother Jones, New York Quarterly, Northern Pleasure, Open Wide Magazine, Pinchpenny, Planet Detroit, Poema Convidado, Poet, Punch, Quilt, Quintessence, Quixote Quarterly, Riversedge, Sage Trail, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Second Coming, Small Press Review, Southshore, Star West, Stone Country, The New Magazine, The Realist, The Smudge, Twigs, Vagabond, Velvet Wings, Village Idiot, Washout Review, Westerly, Whetstone, Wind, Wine Rings, Wormwood Review, Xanadu, Yellow Brick Road, Zahir, Zone
Prizes:
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fiction Award (1969); Hibiscus Press Poetry Prize (1976); The Howitzer Prize for Poetry (1982); The Santa Barbara Summer Poetry Workshop Competition (2008)

Paul Fericano Resume

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:
After the Fall: New and Selected Poems by Edward Field, A Primer on Parallel Lives by Dan Gerber, Groucho : The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer , One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist by Paul Krassner, Entering the Healing Ground: Grief, Ritual and the Soul of the World by Francis Weller

Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the writers listed in it.
Listing last updated: October 30, 2011

More Information

Listed as:
Fiction Writer, Poet
Gives readings?
Yes
Travels for readings?
Yes
Born in:
San Francisco, CA
Raised in:
San Francisco, CA

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