Terry
McCarty
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Terry McCarty was born on July 31, 1959 in Electra, Texas. He moved to Southern California in 1988. From 1988 to 1997, he worked as a background actor and occasional stand-in for actors including Joe Pesci (The Public Eye, Lethal Weapon 3, and Jimmy Hollywood) and Wallace Shawn (House Arrest).
Terry began writing poetry in the summer of 1997. From 1998 to 1999, he was a member of the Midnight Special Bookstore poetry workshop in Santa Monica. Chapbooks include I Saw it on TV (Lummox Press Little Red Books series) and Imperfectionist (Meridien PressWorks), self-published chapbooks include the titles Never Met Bokowski and [insert clever title here]. Terry's poems also appear in the anthologies So Luminous the Wildflowers (Tebot Bach) and The Long Way Home: The Best of the Little Red Books 1998-2008 (Lummox Press).
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