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Gender
Male
Birthday
January 21
Location
locationland
About Me
Jeffrey S. Callico has written poetry and fiction since 1981. He edited Negative Suck, an online literary magazine, from 2009 to 2014. Although it is now defunct, he himself is not. His previous publications include Fighting Off The Sun: Stories, Tales, and Other Matters of Opinion, and chapbooks Early Trouble, Ceilings, Rough Travel, The Well-Dressed Drunk, People = Bus, and most recently Semantics.
Writing Style
experimental; absurdist
Favorite Books
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Favorite Authors
John Updike | John Cheever | Garielle (formerly Gary) Lutz | Alan Sillitoe | Joyce Carol Oates | Anne Pyne | Weldon Kees | Daniil Kharms | Gertrude Stein | Kafka | Ann Quin | Orhan Pamuk
Favorite Poets
Bob Hicok | Ted Kooser | Charles Simic | Billy Collins | William Stafford | Theodore Roethke | William Carlos Williams | Randall Jarrell | Lenore Kandel | Lew Welch | Anne Sexton | Sylvia Plath | Wallace Stevens
Favorite Quote
The writer is simply someone who tunes in to certain cosmic currents. He's sort of a transcriber, an explorer, a map maker. –William S. Burroughs
Favorite Music
most everything except country, rap, opera, and post-2000 pop
Favorite Movies
Magnolia
Favorite Shows
Severence
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