R.I.P. Maggie Estep
February 12, 2014 § Leave a comment
Maggie Estep has apparently died, of complications from a heart attack she suffered on Sunday.
If you are like me you first learned of her through her ranty, caffeinated promotional skits on MTV. That was in my late-teen years, and it was through Estep (and, to a lesser extent, Henry Rollins) that I discovered that poetry slams and spoken word performance and coffeehouses were a thing. They just weren’t a thing in the suburbs, where I lived.
She had released two records (1994’s No More Mr. Nice Girl and 1997’s Love Is a Dog From Hell) and wrote several books, including the darkly comic novels Diary of an Emotional Idiot and Hex. Her last blog post was on Friday, her last tweet Saturday.
Neil Serven 
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