Skip to content
Best American Poetry Blog
  • À la mémoire de John Ashbery [par Olivier Brossard]

    September 7, 2017

    Mort de John Ashbery, poète américainLE MONDE | 05.09.2017 à 11h31 • Mis à jour le 05.09.2017 à 12h26 | Par Olivier Brossard (maître de conférence à l'université Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée) Figure majeure des lettres américaines, l’écrivain s’est éteint dimanche 3 septembre, à 90 ans.…

    Continue reading…

  • Remembering John Ashbery: These small moments have been monumental [by John Gallaher]

    September 7, 2017

    My meetings with and correspondence with John Ashbery was brief, so much briefer than I wished. But these small moments have been monumental to me. I’ve nothing to add to the Ashbery story that people…

    Continue reading…

  • Remembering John Ashbery: “The Improvement” [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]

    September 7, 2017

    (Ed note: In the aftermath of John Ashbery's death, I've been scrolling through our archive of John-related posts. We've had hundreds! I discovered this one from 2011 and  it has inspired me to attempt…

    Continue reading…

  • Remembering John Ashbery: Ninety-Fifth Street [poem by John Koethe]

    September 7, 2017

    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…

    Continue reading…

  • Housecoat Days (by Mitch Sisskind)

    September 6, 2017

    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…

    Continue reading…

  • Sensibility & sense: Céline Le Tixérant, draughtswoman of dance [by Paul Tracy Danison]

    September 6, 2017

    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…

    Continue reading…

←Previous Page Next Page→

Copyright 2025 | A WordPress Theme By SuperbThemes

Best American Poetry Blog