Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...

read these two pulp novels the last few days, both written under pseudonyms & with amazing poetry connections—“Always Love a Stranger” (1961) by Joe LeSueur as “Roger Davis” & “Vietnam Nurse” (1966) by Fanny Howe as “Della Field”

Opera, illness, gay cosmopolitans, S&M, glorious poems: I wrote about the poet James Schuyler & Nathan Kernan’s excellent new biography. Free post, no paywall. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/there-was-... @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Dan Chiasson has a great review of the new James Schuyler biography by Nathan Kernan in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Happy birthday to John Ashbery, who would’ve turned 98 today. “The past is dust and ashes, and this incommensurably wide way leads to the pragmatic and kinetic future.” newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/o...

Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan, from Alex Katz’s “Face of the Poet” series, 1978

The poet Frank O'Hara died after a tragic accident on Fire Island, NY, 59 years ago today. Here's the obituary from the NY Times & O'Hara's gravestone. "When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf / to turn away from the sun - it loves it there." newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/t...

Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

Kind of crazy to go from introducing my 13-year-old daughter to the music of Frankie Cosmos (name inspired by Frank O'Hara!) to her interviewing Greta Kline and writing this feature a decade later @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social www.pastemagazine.com/music/franki...

We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/YtQzXpd

Today, a second conversation about the late Alice Notley. The brilliant poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joined me to talk about grief and life in the underworld in Notley’s extraordinary epic The Descent of Alette. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Evan Kindley (@evankindley.bsky.social) reviews Nathan Kernan's long-awaited new biography of the great James Schuyler for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.” “making life, not explaining anything” I missed having these conversations. open.spotify.com/episode/6fLF...

Great to see this tribute to Alice Notley (1945-2025) at McNally Jackson Books in NY (SoHo)

The New York Times's obituary for the great Alice Notley (1945-2025) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

Andrew Epstein on James Schuyler’s *Hymn to Life* @andrewepstein.bsky.social

Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.

Last month I delivered a talk on psychoanalysis and poetry at Saint Mark's Church. Today, it appears in the @parisreview.bsky.social. I wrote it at JClo's house, and he makes a cameo: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...

Amiri Baraka: A Poet Looks Back on a Bloody Week in 1967 www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/n...

Rare photo of 4 New York School poets together -- John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler at a party in 1955, young, laughing, full of life. For more on the photo: newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/r...

Kenneth Koch at 100 -- tributes & celebrations to the great poet & his legacy, including at the New School in February & coming up on 5/17 at the Flow Chart Foundation (@flowchartfdn.bsky.social) in Hudson, NY, which I'm honored to be participating in newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/k...

“April is the seduction of the world. And yet.” — Joshua Clover (RIP)

If you’d told me in 1994 after I fell in love with “Hips and Makers" that in 2025 my own daughter would have the chance to interview @kristinhersh.bsky.social & write a big profile of her & @throwingmuses.bsky.social…Well, I'm not sure what I would've said but I would have had a very strong reaction

Very sorry to hear the sad news that the great Irish poet Michael Longley (1939-2025) has passed away.

got to write a long-ass essay for paste’s weekly time capsule about one of @themountaingoats.bsky.social’s earliest records, zopilote machine — which is still phenomenal even thirty years down the line

it's official--my first book will be published by @columbiaup.bsky.social Such a Thing as New York School: Print Culture, Publishing Communities, & American Poetry--an account of how publishing practices give material forms to American literary communities & the group labels that describe them.

"I am the trick my mother played on the world Seventeen doctors couldn't decide whether I should be allowed in the game." Happy birthday to the late great David Berman.

How Joe Brainard spent Christmas in 1961: played in the snow all morning, completely broke his glasses, worked on a self-portrait collage, went to a Chinese restaurant & had chow mein & 6 whiskey sours & then stayed up all night & wrote a 34-page story

Hettie Jones Helped Kickstart New York’s Beat Scene www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ain’t it funny how the night moves

Dwight Garner reviews the new collection of Joe Brainard's letters, edited by @dkanepoetry.bsky.social, (and discovers the joys of "I Remember"!) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/b...

So great to see Kevin Killian’s “Selected Amazon Reviews” reviewed in the New Yorker: “Killian’s reviews are brimming w/ genuine pleasure, & also a wonderment & ardor for the great variety of stuff on the Web site” www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

Joe Brainard led with a happy-go-lucky veneer in virtually everything he published—but he was a deceptively private man. Daniel Felsenthal writes on the selected letters of the queer artist and poet.

wrote a little (read: gargantuan!!) essay for @pastemagazine.bsky.social about car seat headrest’s "how to leave town," which turned ten last month. this album kept me afloat in the early aughts of high school, so writing this meant a lot to me! please check it out💘

Since I didn't yet see one, I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in POETICS & POETRY, LYRIC THEORY, VERSE GENRES, etc. Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier! go.bsky.app/4fxbKvR

So great to see this rave review of the late Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews" by @perfectvehicle.bsky.social in Washington Post: "learned, often laugh-out-loud funny, frequently moving, guilelessly enthusiastic and intellectually generous." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in COUNTERCULTURE & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960s & 1970s literature // history // politics Please share, suggest to friends, & reply to be added! go.bsky.app/TfR9zUX

“Things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly” — Terrance Hayes

Put together a wee modernism/contemporary lit Starter Pack (because there simply wasn't not enough research/teaching prep/admin/housework to keep me occupied) DM me if I've made any glaring omissions or besmirched your good name by implying that you're a modernist go.bsky.app/CkQhf9v

My department at Florida State is hiring! We're seeking a tenure track Assistant Professor in Medieval Literature and Culture, with research/teaching expertise in Old English and History of the English Language. Please spread the word! For more info: joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

My department at Florida State is hiring! We're seeking a tenure track Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Composition, with preferred area of interest in Critical Composition Studies (histories, theories, or methods). Please spread the word! For more info: joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

This is just to say I have dumped the dead bear that was in my trunk and which I was hoping to eat later Forgive me I had dinner at Peter Luger’s and then remembered I had a plane to catch

I had the pleasure of writing about James Marcus’s delightful new portrait of Emerson for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/gla...

Very sad to hear the news that the poet David Shapiro (1947-2024), a central figure of the New York School's 2nd generation, has died. David was not only one of my favorite poets, but also a kind, generous, brilliant mentor. www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/david-...

Happy birthday to the incomparable Frank O'Hara, who was born on this day in 1926, but never knew it. (His parents claimed his birthday was 6/27 to hide that they’d gotten pregnant out of wedlock). "Each day's light has more significance these days" newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/t...

A pleasant surprise to stumble on Fairfield Porter’s “John Ashbery (Argyle Socks)” (1952) at the National Portrait Gallery in DC

"Tomorrow is St. Valentine's: / tomorrow I'll think about / that." --James Schuyler, in this poem written at Payne Whitney psychiatric clinic, 49 years ago today. newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/j...

The painter Joan Mitchell was born on this day in 1925. Here's Mitchell's painting "Les Bluets," and James Schuyler's prose poem "Footnote," which talks about the painting and "Joan's giant vision, running and holding, staring you down with beauty."

“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.” — Elizabeth Bishop, born on this day in 1911, wrote this birthday poem for herself.