Maxim's Publisher Tries Different Verse; Spokesman Says Dennis Will Give Away 100 Cases of Wine During Poetry Tour

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › September 22, 2004

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NEW YORK - Felix Dennis, the publisher of Maxim magazine, made himself a fortune by taking on the U.S. magazine establishment and giving young men what they wanted: stories about sex, beer and frat- house humor.

Now he's taking on another institution: Free verse.

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Maxim's Publisher Tries Different Verse; Spokesman Says Dennis Will Give Away 100 Cases of Wine During Poetry Tour

"We were clappy-happy, we were hippy-dippy - We were building Eden by the mighty Mississippi," Dennis intones in a husky baritone, reading into a microphone from the opening lines of one of his poems. He was doing a rehearsal in a basement theater in...

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