Barbara Barg
Barbara Barg (April 29, 1947–May 22, 2018) was an American poet, writer, and musician. Born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Forrest City, Arkansas, she studied with poet Ted Berrigan at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago before moving to New York City to join the downtown poetry and music scene from the late 1970s through the 1990s.
She performed widely in New York and at festivals, and collaborated with many experimental artists. In 1991 she co-founded the all-women band Homer Erotic with Maggie Dubris, a seven-woman group that mixed poetry and music and lasted until 2000.
Barg’s poetry explored ideas like poetic ethnologies and what she called "voluntary evolution." She later lived in Chicago, taught at The Chicago School of Poetics, and wrote screenplays for Jump Room Films. She died on May 22, 2018, at age 71.
Her work appeared in literary anthologies and sound art projects, including compilations such as State of the Union, Beneath the Valley of the Yahoos, and Phone Noir, and on Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine and other multi-artist releases.
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