James Sherry is the author of 14 books of poetry and prose, most recently
The Oligarch: Rewriting Machiavelli’s The Prince
for Our Time and the poetry book
Entangled Bank. Since 1976, he has edited Roof Books, publishing more than 200 titles of seminal works of language writing, flarf, conceptual poetry, new narrative, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation in 1977, producing over 10,000 performance events in New York City.