Michael Andre (born August 31, 1946) is a Canadian, disc jockey, poet, critic and editor living in New York City. Andre was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a civil engineer doing wartime work on a military hospital. His mother's father was a newspaperman, Eyton Warburton; he died when Andre was an infant. Andre was raised in Kingston, Ontario. He studied at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

(Honors English, B.A., 1968), the

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(M.A., 1969) and

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(PhD, English and Comparative Literature, 1973). Andre hosted radio shows in Chicago and New York. He interviewed, published, and occasionally socialized with

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and

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, Beats like

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and

Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...

, and homosexual esthetes like

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and

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

. He is divorced from Erika Rothenberg, an artist, and Jane Adler, a flautist and sign-language interpreter; he has a son, Benjamin Eyton Andre. Papers may be found at the

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and at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. Andre is the editor of ''

Unmuzzled OX ''Unmuzzled OX'' was a quarterly of poetry, art and politics founded in 1971 by poet Michael Andre, edited in New York City and Kingston, Ontario. Aided by artist Erika Rothenberg, the best-known issue was ''The Poets' Encyclopedia'', the world's ...

'', an occasional magazine of poetry, art and politics which began in 1971 as a quarterly and has produced 16 volumes. Andre edited and published two books by

, ''Earth Egg'' and ''Writings from OX''. His opera, ''Orfreo'', with music by

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, premiered at Merkin Hall in 2004. The two also collaborated on ''Sex and Pre-anti-post-modernism'' and ''S.O.S. W.T.C.'' He has two widely available anthologies of selected poems: ''Studying the Ground for Holes'' (1978) and ''Experiments in Banal Living'' (1998). He has worked as a critic for ''

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'', ''Art News'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. His autobiographical essay was published in 1991 by Gale. In addition to being a poet and editor, Andre was involved with social issues beginning in Paris in 1967 and sometimes appears as a Catholic ''homme de gauche.'' "A jackrabbit, if it could read ndre's poetry, according to

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, poet and

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, "would jump for glee. And if it could talk to itself, wd. undoubtedly be heard saying, 'Demme, wish I'd thought of that!'" Andre has recited his poetry in London, Frankfurt and Paris, at various venues in New York including the Public Theater, St. Mark's Poetry Project, and the Bowery Poetry Club as well as at numerous universities and galleries throughout Canada and the United States. Since 1992, Andre has written a column called "New York Letter" for the ''Small Press Review''.

Interviews

Interviews with

Denise Levertov Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Early life and influences Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Ess ...

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...

, James Wright,

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, and Corso with scholarly commentary were accepted as his doctoral dissertation at Columbia in 1973. The interviews with Levertov, Creeley and Corso have been reprinted in a number of different periodicals. The Levertov interview first appeared in ''The Little Magazine''; the others first appeared in ''Unmuzzled OX''. Warhol interviews appeared in ''Small Press Review'', ''ART News'' and ''Unmuzzled OX''. The Berrigan interview was commissioned by Warhol for his magazine, then rejected for its political content, and appeared in ''Unmuzzled OX''. Tapes of radio broadcasts with

Patti Smith Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album '' Horses''. Called the "punk poe ...

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted ...

and others are at the

. An interview about

Jackie Curtis Jackie Curtis (February 19, 1947 – May 15, 1985) was an American actress, writer, singer, and Warhol superstar. Early life and career Jackie Curtis was born in New York City to John Holder and Jenevive Uglialoro. She had one sibling, half-br ...

is in ''Superstar in a Housedress'', the

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documentary and subsequent

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book.

Poetry

*1974: ''Xmas Present.'' New York: Mimeo *1975: ''My Regrets.'' Minneapolis: Pentagram *1978: ''Studying the Ground for Holes.'' New York: Release *1979: ''Letters Home.'' Montreal: Cross Country *1981: ''Jabbing the Asshole is High Comedy.'' New York: Print Center *1990: ''It as It.'' New York: Money for Food *1998: ''Experiments in Banal Living.'' Montreal: Empyreal *2004: ''Unmuzzled in Paris.'' Paris: Lalande Digital *2006: ''Scratched Lens.'' Key West, FL: Cycle

External links

Andre's art and music blog John Cage Shoes

Andre's film blog Elizabeth Taylor's Ego

Notes

For the milieu and the contretemps with Warhol, see: "Ezra Pound's Interview"

(Volume XII, Number 3, 1988) p. 95 Robert Creeley "43 Poems in 4 Sections, with 18 poems in couplets, written between 1968 and 1978" (Release Press, Brooklyn, 1979) {{DEFAULTSORT:Andre, Michael 1946 births 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male poets Living people Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia Writers from Kingston, Ontario Writers from New York City McGill University alumni University of Chicago alumni Columbia University alumni 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian male writers