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Remembering John Ashbery: Ninety-Fifth Street [poem by John Koethe]
Words can bang around in your headForever, if you let them and you give them room.I used to love poetry, and mostly I still do, Though sometimes “I, too, dislike it.” There must be Something real…
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Housecoat Days (by Mitch Sisskind)
I dislike or wait not really dislike It makes me sick to my stomach How on Sunday mornings you getStinky vibe from her when you say I love you and she looks up from…
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Sensibility & sense: Céline Le Tixérant, draughtswoman of dance [by Paul Tracy Danison]
Watercolor, cutaway, mangrove on the Iles de Tristao (Guinea), from a study for a nature reserve, “Moment Suspendu” – Céline Le Tixérant As a boy, I was not yet equipped with the endurance and…
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Here it is five p.m. — it’s been a long day. . .
Robert Morse's long pause before he acquiesces with "yeah" is priceless. From How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.
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Andrew Epstein on JA
Andrew Epstein on JA, grace a Geoffrey O'Brien. <<< This past Sunday, September 4, brought the very sad news that John Ashbery had passed away at the age of 90. Ashbery is generally regarded…
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David Orr on JA for the New York Times
Here is David Orr's appraisal of John Ashbery, and here is the obituary he composed for the paper.of record. Tothe left is a photo from the 2011 poetry forum featuring John as guest of…
