Gerard Malanga

Gerard Joseph Malanga is an AmericanItalian poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist.

Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943, the only child of Italian immigrant parents. In 1959, at the beginning of his senior year at the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan, Malanga became a regular on Alan Freeds The Big Beat, televised on Channel in New York City. He graduated from high school with a major in Advertising Design . He was introduced to poetry by his senior class English teacher, poet Daisy Aldan, who had a profound influence on his life and work from then on. He enrolled at the University of Cincinnatis College of Art amp Design , and was mentored by the poet, Richard Eberhart who was the universitys resident poet for 1961. He dropped out at the end of the Spring semester. In the fall of 1961, Malanga was admitted to Wagner College in Staten Island on a fellowship anonymously donated for the express purpose of advancing his creative abilities as a poet and artist. At Wagner he befriended one of his English professors, Willard Maas, and his wife Marie Menken, who be

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