MAX BLAGG

Max Blagg, English born, has lived in NYC since 1971. Highly respected as a poet, writer and performer on the New York literary scene, he has appeared at innumerable venues in and out of NYC, including the Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Parrish Museum,
Jackie 60, St Marks Church, The National Arts Club, Bowery Poetry Club, CBGB,
The Gershwin Hotel, Jackie 60, the Performing Garage, and many other choice locations.

Since 1979 he has published five volumes of poetry and prose, and his writing has appeared frequently in various magazines, including Bomb, Man of The World, Shiny, Interview, Aperture, Ten, Oyster, BG, Village Voice, Night, Verbal Abuse. Blagg was co-founder and co-editor with Glenn O'Brien, of the short-lived but groundbreaking magazine of art and literature, BALD EGO. 

Blagg has collaborated with many artists, including James Nares, Alex Katz, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Donald Sultan, Billy Sullivan, Keith Sonnier, Joe Fyfe, Jerelyn Hanrahan and Nicholas Rule, creating texts and poetry inspired by their work and used in gallery and museum exhibition catalogues, and artworks.

Blagg continues to raise the dead in a series of interviews with famous deceased celebrities, published in 10 magazine over the past two years.

BOOKS

Ticket Out, an embellished memoir of an English country childhood, forthcoming in 2022.
Tiny Terror -an unedited film, shot by Barney Kulok in sumptuous black and white, in which Truman Capote, reincarnated by Gary Indiana as a human size frog, takes a critical tour of 2011 Hamptonia, meeting several artists along the way, including Keith Sonnier and Mary Heilmann in their respective studios, and Clarissa Dalrymple in a country garden, giving an extraordinary disquisition on various edible weeds.

Loud Money, a 104 page offset printed hardcover monograph, in collaboration with artist Curtis Kulig, will appear in April 2021 from Paradigm Publishers/NYC.

A sequel entitled "101 Nights". set in 1980s New York, is nearing completion.