Editing Jackson Mac Low (section)

{{Short description|American poet (1922–2004)}}
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| occupation         = Poet, performance artist, composer and playwright
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'''Jackson Mac Low''' (September 12, 1922 &ndash; December 8, 2004)<ref>{{cite news |author1=Margalit Fox |author-link1=Margalit Fox |title=Jackson Mac Low, 82, Poet and Composer, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/10/books/jackson-mac-low-82-poet-and-composer-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 April 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 December 2004 |page=A 39}}</ref> was an American poet, [[performance artist]], [[composer]] and [[playwright]], known to most readers of poetry as a practitioner of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of [[John Cage]], [[Earle Brown]], and [[Christian Wolff (composer)|Christian Wolff]]. He was married to the artist Iris Lezak from 1962 to 1978, and to the poet [[Anne Tardos]] from 1990 until his death.

An early affiliate of [[Fluxus]]<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dumett |first1=Mari |title=Corporate Imaginations: Fluxus Strategies for Living |date=2017-08-22 |language=en |isbn=978-0-520-29038-9 |publisher=University of California Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBgvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40 |page=40 }}</ref> (he co-published ''[[An Anthology of Chance Operations]]'') and stylistic progenitor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/dec/20/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title=Obituary: Jackson MacLow|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=20 December 2004}}</ref> of the [[Language poets]], Mac Low cultivated ties with an eclectic array of notable figures in the postwar American [[avant-garde]], including [[Nam June Paik]], [[Kathy Acker]], [[Allen Ginsberg]], and [[Arthur Russell (musician)|Arthur Russell]].<ref name="libraries.ucsd.edu">{{Cite web |url=http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0180a.html |title=Register of Jackson Mac Low Papers - MSS 180 |access-date=2012-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614161319/http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0180a.html |archive-date=2012-06-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His work has been published in more than 90 anthologies and periodicals and read publicly, exhibited, performed, and broadcast in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He read, performed, and lectured in New York and throughout North America, Europe, and New Zealand, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Asnières, Paris, Bouliac (near Bordeaux), Marseilles, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and New York.