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Brown University; Vassar College.
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Michael Scharf
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Scharf"s poetry "mimics a vernacular language so debased it does actual harm." He was poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly from 1997 until 2006. At Poets & Writers magazine, he founded and wrote the column Metromania. In 1999, he founded Harry Tankoos Books, which publishes books and chapbooks.
In 2006, with the poet Joshua Clover, he co-founded the small press ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni, publisher of Kevin Killian"s Action Kylie, among other books
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in cognitive science from Vassar College, and an Master of Arts in linguistics from Brown University. His work has appeared in Chain, ubuweb, Jacket, the German, and the Poetry Daily Essentials anthology.
Scharf on the use of poetry criticism in Jacket Magazine, 2000
Scharf on Austrian writers’ protests in Poets & Writers,
Scharf on Meghalaya, India in Change Observer
Foreign Kid Rock / Total Freedom, Stop Smiling, 2007. Vérité, Overlap, 2003
Vérité, Pantaloons, 2004
Telemachiad, A Tonalist Notes, 2006.
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