I met Maggie Estep during the SF Poetry Slam in 1994. She was part of the New York team that included Reggie Cabico, Hal Sirowitz, and Tracey Morris. I soon met Bob Holman and a group of NYC poets, including people who were involved with Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Unbearables, and the magazine, Sensitive Skin.
When I moved to NYC, I used to see Maggie Estep quite often at readings and parties. I saw
her play in a band at Mercury Lounge. She wrote a number of books.
She worked briefly as a go-go dancer, joined the punk scene and became addicted to heroin. She took up fiction writing at a drug rehabilitation clinic in the mid-1980s.
In 1986 she attended a class taught by William S. Burroughs at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo. She studied there for two years and eventually received a bachelor’s degree in literature from the State University of New York.
She worked briefly as a go-go dancer, joined the punk scene and became addicted to heroin. She took up fiction writing at a drug rehabilitation clinic in the mid-1980s.
In 1986 she attended a class taught by William S. Burroughs at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo. She studied there for two years and eventually received a bachelor’s degree in literature from the State University of New York.
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