Gillian McCain

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gillian McCain
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Jan 1, 1966(1966-01-01)
Age	58
Birthplace	Bath
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Capricorn

Gillian McCain Biography

Gillian McCain is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on January 1, 1966 in Bath, Michigan, United States. Gillian McCain (born January 1 1966) is an Canadian poet as well as author and collector, best recognized as the author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk that she co-wrote with Legs McNeil. McCain also wrote two poetry books: Tilt and Religion. Parts from her “found photo” collection have been published in magazines, released in limited editions, and showcased in the Camera Club of New York gallery. She sat on the Board of Directors of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and was the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery New York City.

It was in 1996 that Grove Press published Please Kill Me The Uncensored Oral History of the Punk Movement that McCain co-wrote together with Legs McNeil. The book is comprised of excerpts taken from over a hundred interviews Kill Me provides a unique account of a turbulent and complicated period of American history. The book covers the early-Punk time period during the Velvet Underground through the rise and the fall of Punk icons Iggy Pop as well as the Ramones and many other.

McCain married James Marshall, a writer, whom she met at the Poetry Project, in 2002.

In 2010 Gillian McCain co-curated (with artist Megan Cump) a selection of “found photographs” from her collection. Entitled “HELP ME,” the photographs were exhibited at the gallery of the Camera Club of New York. Forgotten, discarded, orphaned, lost; stolen, bought, discovered or found; the vernacular images in “HELP ME” were culled from McCain’s extensive collection of photographs in formats including tin-types, cabinet cards, Polaroids, and snapshots. In The New Yorker, photography critic Vince Aletti called the exhibition “exhilarating,” stating, “Images of rifles, costumes, and injuries crop up repeatedly, but there’s no real theme, only plenty of diverting quirkiness and inspiration.” The Help Me exhibition was also featured in the December, 2010 issue of the French magazine, Photo. A limited edition book also titled Help Me, was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Thank You For Killing Me was an instant success and has since evolved into an instant classic, inspiring an era of new audio oral stories of music. When it first came out, The book was named an official Time Out and Daily News Top Ten book of the year. The review in Time Out New York said that the book “Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time.” The book’s excerpts were published in Vanity Fair as part of the book’s publication in 1996. The book is now available by Brazil, China, The Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Spain.

Gillian McCain Net Worth

Gillian McCain is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gillian McCain 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

McCain is a native of Bath, New Brunswick, Canada. She went to her studies at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she graduated with an B.A of Literature. She relocated into New York City in 1987 and went on to complete an M.A. of Literature from New York University in 1990. The year 1988 was the first time McCain took part in the Naropa Institute’s Summer Program.

In the beginning of her profession as a writer, Gillian McCain was initially attracted by free-verse poetry but, after studying with the poet Larry Fagain, she began to be drawn towards prose writing. McCain released her first collection in poetry called Tilt which was published in the year 1996. Tilt is a collection of poems by Tilt, McCain reflects on her experiences with on her by the New York School in poetry as well as the everyday stress and chaos of life on her. Tilt has been praised due to it’s “chatty, detached style.” The writer John Ashbery of Tilt, “Gillian McCain’s poems are like urgent telegrams from the next door, or oddly but brilliantly cropped snapshots of a life that is going by.” The poet and author Harry Mathews called it a, “brilliant collection of prose poems.

McCain published another book of poetry, Religion, in 1999. Her second published collection of poetry was very well received. “Her work features ‘I did this then I did that’ New York School immediacy, but undermines it with ironic distance that collapses any naïve faith in the immediate as a source of value,” said poet Mark Wallace in a review in the Poetry Project Newsletter.

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Following her graduation from New York University, McCain was hired by the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where she served as program coordinator (1991-1994), editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter (1994-1995), and edited four issues of the lit-zine Milk. In 1991 she founded the Friday Night Series—a weekly event that featured poetry, fiction, non-fiction, theme readings, tributes, lectures, performance art and music. In four years she brought in over four hundred artists. The series continues to this day. She devoted herself to writing full-time in 1995.

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