John Farris (poet and novelist)

John Farris (1940–2016) was an American poet and novelist who lived in the East Village neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

Early in his career he spent some time in the orbit around the Civil Rights leader Malcolm X.

[2] He died of a heart attack in January 2016 at his flat at the Bullet Space collective in the East Village.

The speakers and readers at the memorial included; Chavisa Woods, Michael Carter, Ron Kolm, Bob Holman, Andrew Castrucci, Mia Hansford, David Henderson, Steve Cannon, and several of the writer's daughters, Farris's grandson jazz saxophonist Richard Dye also performed.

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