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John Fisk (died December 20, 2004) was an American radio personality based in
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, associated with the
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's
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. During the 1970s and 1980s Fisk was the host of ''Digressions'', a weekly late-night
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show on WBAI. Fisk also served as broadcast consultant to the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church for over twenty years, producing broadcasts of Poetry Project readings for WBAI.


References

*Greg Fuchs
"John Fisk, 1943-2004"
''Boog City'' (Feb. 2005) (retrieved September 16, 2009). *R. Paul Martin, "John Fisk 1946-2004"

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