Celebration of the Life and Times of John Farris, famed underground Lower East Side poet and artist. Hosted by Chavisa Woods, featuring Bob Holman, Steve Cannon, Ron Kolm, Michael Carter, John's four daughters, members of Bullet Space, and many others who give praise and fond remembrance.
Read MoreSteve decided to write something about John, and since he's blind he asked me to read it for him. Steve says, the first time he ever remembers meeting John was in Tompkins Sq Park.
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Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of lust, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes the men they come with keys, and sometimes the men they come with hammers.
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Orchids in the moonlight
Don't scream
Just be
Serene
Oh, were Mark Lombardi alive today! Two stories broke last week—one by Bloomberg on how a right-wing Colombian hacker who, in league with a Miami-based political “consultant,” worked to throw elections to conservative politicians throughout Latin America.
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It's not my birthday
I need some blind
Fucking drawings
My dad was an anarchist. He could be rough around the edges, often speaking his truth without censure or care for social mores.
But to me he was more than John, the rebel artist. He was my father.
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Behind the email chains, invoices and documents that make up the Panama Papers are often unseen victims of wrongdoing enabled by this shadowy industry. This is their story.
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As writers and artists, we join PEN American Center in calling on you to end the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s efforts to force Apple to create software
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As quiet as it's kept
This is the hag