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JA Reads and Explains “These Lacustrine Cities” on Bruce Kawin’s Radio Show (1966)
Jeff Hipsher has posted this excellent interview that Bruce Kawin conducted with John Ashbery in, I would guess, spring 1966. At the time Bruce hosted a half-hour radio show, "Literary Workshop," on WKCR, Columbia's…
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David Lehman, the series editor of The Best American Poetry, is also the editor of the Oxford Book of American Poetry. His newest book of poetry is Poems in the Manner Of. Other poetry…
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I Bowled Like Shit (by Mitch Sisskind)
Smig, drinking at the Timber Lanes bar, Makes a feeble dumbshow of his face Toward whomever – myself and others, For Smig is well loved there – he makes A feeble dumbshow if anybody…
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What if poetry were something else entirely? Remembering John Ashbery (Terence Winch)
I met John Asbery in November of 1973 when I went with a group of friends to hear him read in DC. Maybe it was the Library of Congress. I can’t remember. Michael Lally…
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The Library of America pays tribute to John Ashbery
Geoffrey O'Brien, outgoing editor-in-chief of the Library of America, has put together this package of short reminiscences from writers on whom JA had a major influence. Photo credit: Star…
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Is a market top on tap? “Noodles” weighs in [by David Lehman]
Everyone knows that stocks these days, especially US stocks, are overvalued. But picking a market top is no easy matter. David Aronson, former professor at Baruch College,now president of a research firm that develops…
