Larry Fagin (July 21, 1937 – May 27, 2017) was an American poet, editor, publisher, and teacher, and a member of theNew York School.
Born inFar Rockaway, New York City, Larry Fagin grew up in New York, Hollywood, and Europe. He began associating with poets and writers in 1957, meetingDavid Meltzer in Los Angeles, andAllen Ginsberg,William S. Burroughs, andGregory Corso two years later in Paris. In 1962 he became part of the circle of poets aroundJack Spicer in San Francisco, and befriendedMichael McClure,Philip Whalen, andRobert Duncan. At the end of 1965 he traveled to London where he lived for two years and met his first wife, Joan Inglis. They returned to New York, and settled in San Francisco for most of 1968.Clark Coolidge became a close friend. Returning to New York within the year, he began editingAdventures in Poetry magazine and books, which featured most of the poets of theNew York School. In the late 1960s Fagin's work was published in0 to 9 magazine, an avant-garde journal which experimented with language and meaning-making.
In 1975, with the dancerBarbara Dilley, Fagin cofoundedDanspace Project atSt. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery; he was its artistic director for five years. Simultaneously, he taught writing at thePoetry Project at St. Mark's and in 1976 joined the faculty of the Summer Writing Program at theNaropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. At Naropa, he met and married the writer Susan Noel. In 2000, with Cris Mattison, he revived theAdventures in Poetry imprint, and began editing and publishingSal Mimeo magazine. Fagin’s recent books areDig & Delve (Granary Books, 1999),Complete Fragments (Cuneiform Press, 2012), andEleven Poems for Philip Guston (Granary Books, 2016). He continued to edit and teach privately in Manhattan until his death.
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