Beer Coasters
This file appears in: Poet Everette Maddox's "American Waste"
Maddox was homeless at the time, so Hank Staples collected and stored his poems in a paper K&B Drugstore bag. Those poems were published posthumously, four years after his death, by Ralph Adamo and Portals Press, as American Waste.
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This file appears in: Poet Everette Maddox's "American Waste"
Poet Everette Maddox's "American Waste"
After a long dry spell beginning in the early 1980s, poet Everette Maddox began writing again in 1988. The poems began to pour out of him, seeming to bubble up after the seven years in which he did…