Paul Fericano

Paul Fericano is the co-founder (with Elio Ligi) of the first parody news syndicate, Yossarian Universal News Service (1980) and the director of SafeNet, an advocacy group that assists survivors of clergy sexual abuse. His poetry and satires have appeared in numerous publications, including The Wormwood Review, The New York Quarterly, Second Coming, The Truth Seeker, Poetry Now, Mother Jones,  Pocket Lint, Vagabond, The Three Stooges Journal, The Realist, Free Lunch, Outlaw Poetry, Punch (London), Charlie Hebdo (Paris), and Krokodil (Moscow).

He is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, including Things That Go Trump in the Night: Poems of Treason and Resistance, My Life in A Coma, The Hollywood Catechism, 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. Fericano is the author of "A Room With A Pew," a regular blog/column on clergy sexual abuse and the healing process (roomwithapew.com).

On November 7, 2020, the day the U.S. presidential election was called for Joe Biden,  he began publishing daily entries for a months-long project, "The Suicide Notes," culminating on January 21, 2021, the day after Biden's inauguration, with the final posting, "The Sucide Note of Donald J. Trump" (yunews.com).

Fericano currently resides on the San Francisco peninsula.