Max Blagg is a British poet, writer, and performer. Blagg has performed in New York City since 1973.https://10magazine.com/max-blagg-adventures-in-downtown-new-york-10-men-60/ He is a visiting lecturer in poetry at The New School in New York City (continuous from 2005).
Life Max Blagg was born in 1948Entries for some of his poetry in the WorldCat online international library catalogue give the year of his birth as 1948. An October 1992 article in Entertainment Weekly describes him as "43-year-old Max Blagg," suggesting he was born near the end of 1948. He was actually born in July or August 1948FreeBMD ref:3c 153 at Retford, England, where he was a childhood friend of the actor Philip Jackson. Both were educated at Retford King Edward VI Grammar School and were together in the same class from 1959 until 1966. At the end of his second year he was elevated to the junior fourth form as one of the top 18 of the 78 students in that year. In 1965 he was appointed as a school prefect. He left school with GCE A levels in English and French,http://www.oldretfordians.org.uk and was later accepted by London's North Western Polytechnic (which later became part of London Metropolitan University, now the University of North London). He received a Bachelor of Arts Lit. [partial] degree.
Blagg states he moved to New York City in 1973, although on other occasions gives the date as 1971.https://www.maxblagg.com/poetry/SlowDazzle.html or 1972.https://rebelrebelantistyle.blogspot.com/2011/06/5-minutes-with-max-blagg-he-rants-it.html
In 1992, his poem "What Fits?" was the soundtrack to a commercial for Gap jeans.
Works The venues where Blagg has performed include the Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Jackie 60, Cable gallery, Nuyorican's Poet's café, St Mark's Church, Bowery Poetry Club, CBGB, Sybarite, KGB Bar, Performing Garage and Mudd Club.
Magazines
Bomb Shiny Lacanian Ink Interview Village Voice Night Verbal Abuse Bald Ego Open City Black Book Room 101 The East Hampton Star Sensitive Skin Magazine
Newspapers New York Times, "I Am The Chelsea Hotel". April 30, 2006
Books From Here to Maternity (Disco Version) Aloes Books/Hotel Firbank, 1980 From Here to Maternity - Aloes Books London 1982 Monkey - Appearances 18 (special issue) 1991 Licking the Fun Up - Aloes Books London 1991 Pink Instrument - Lumen Boston 1998 Eat a Peach - (privately printed) 2006 Up is Up and So is Down NYC Writing and Art from the 80's. edited by Brandon Stosuy, New York Press, 2006 What Love Sees in the Distance - Open City Books 2008 Ticket Out (2013)
Film Appearances "Total Recall" June 11, 2007
References
External links New School.edu – The New School, NYC "Max Blagg's "Autobio A Gogo"" at About.com "The Best Night of His Life," a short story at Sensitive Skin magazine “Video in Manhattan”