Paul Fericano

Paul Fericano is the editor/publisher and co-founder (with Elio Ligi) of the first parody news syndicate, Yossarian Universal News Service / YU News / yunews.com (1980). He is the former director of Instruments of Peace and co-founder (with John McCord) of SafeNet, an advocacy group for victims and survivors of clergy sexual abuse (2003-2023). His poetry and satires have appeared in numerous publications, including The Wormwood Review, The New York Quarterly, The Huffington Post, Second Coming, The Truth Seeker, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Weekly, Poetry Now, Mother Jones, Vagabond, The Three Stooges Journal, Paul Krassner's The Realist, Free Lunch, Outlaw Poetry, Punch (London), Charlie Hebdo (Paris), and Krokodil (Moscow).

He is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, including Things That Go Trump in the Night: Poems of Treason and Resistance, My Life in A Coma, The Hollywood Catechism, Commercial Break, Driving to Reno with Freud, and Loading the Revolver With Real Bullets. He is also the co-author (with Elio Ligi) of the political satire, The One Minute President. In 1982 his poem, "Sinatra, Sinatra," was awarded the infamous Howitzer Prize and then dutifully exposed by the author as a literary hoax. Fericano also writes "A Room With A Pew," a regular blog/column on clergy sexual abuse and the healing process (roomwithapew.com).   

Fericano currently resides on the San Francisco peninsula.