Things That Go Trump in the Night

YU News Service/Little City Press, 2019. YU News Service/Little City Press, 2019. First edition. 16mo. Trade paperback, 90 pp. Ephemera includes 2 satrical trump cards. Paul Fericano's reputation as a poet and writer rests largely on satire. His credits include The New York Quarterly, Mother Jones, The Los Angeles Times, The Realist, Saturday Night Live, Punch (London), Krokodil (Moscow), Charlie Hebdo (Paris), and Satrycón (Argentina). His books include Loading the Revolver with Real Bullets, Commercial Break, The One Minute President, and The Hollywood Catechism (2015). In 1980, he co-founded Yossarian Universal News Service, the grandfather of parody journalism (yunews.com). Two years later he received the Howitzer Prize for his poem, "Sinatra, Sinatra," an award he himself created and exposed as a literary hoax to reveal the absurd nature of competitive awards. As a survivor of clergy sexual abuse, Fericano served from 2003 - 2013 as director of Instruments of Peace / SafeNet, a nonprofit that advocated for and assisted other survivors in their recovery. His blog, A Room With A Pew, explores personal and complex facets of the healing process (roomwithapew.com). He is a resident of the San Francisco peninsula. New.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. New. 16 mo..