Jack McCarthy -- Your Standup Poetry Guy

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1996 Boston National Slam Team
2000 Worcester National Slam Team
2000 National Slam Individual Semi-finals
HippoPress: "stooped, grizzled old... veteran poetry machine."
The Boston Phoenix: “Best Standup Poet”
Boston Poetry Awards “Best Love Poet,”
Cambridge Chronicle: “…sort of grumpy-looking older guy…”
Cambridge Poetry Awards “Best Spoken Word (Male)” and “Best Humorous Poet (Male)”
Boston Globe: “In the poetry world, he's a rock star.”

Stephen Dobyns: "Jack McCarthy is one of the wonders of contemporary poetry…"

"He reminds me of a drunken man in a bar full of snobs, who for some inexplicable reason is always right."—Sam Szabo, grade 7, Rupert A. Nock Middle School, Newburyport, MA

 
 
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