It's neat to see Sianne Ngai chooses the speaker of Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems" as one of "Three Pivotal Characters from American Literature" in this piece in the New York Times (alongside Pynchon's Oedipa Mass and Morrison's Sula). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

beautiful piece by my friend Hugh Foley on Ashbery and grief: Very little has changed in my conception of what the ideal life might look like. You sing a song and this provides for you to sit with your friends a little while. substack.com/home/post/p-...

"the curators should have looked elsewhere for a way to understand the role of Surrealism in the American art of the 1960s.John Ashbery...wrote some suggestive words on Surrealism that have been too little noticed"- Barry Schwabsky on Surrealism @ Whitney www.thenation.com/article/cult...

"New Year is nearly here and who, knowing himself, would endanger his desires resolving them in a formula?" -- James Schuyler, "Empathy and New Year" newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/j...

Madelyn Dawson writes about Joe Brainard and "The Complete C Comics" for the Brooklyn Rail -- brooklynrail.org/2025/12/art_...

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: RELAX! “People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...

Lucy Sante on Joe Brainard and the Complete C Comics

My daughter Casey wrote this review of the new Mountain Goats album! @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social

One of the best Louvre heist stories -- the time Apollinaire and Picasso were wrongly accused of stealing the Mona Lisa (but were definitely neck-deep in a case of statues being stolen from the museum) www.thecollector.com/did-guillaum...

On 'Neon Grey Midnight Green,' Neko Case insists that grief sharpens rather than clouds reality, and that connection—human and animal alike—is the antidote to dread.

This Thursday, there will be a Zoom talk between Matthew Holman & John Yau about Holman's new book, "Frank O'Hara & MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator," hosted by the Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social. See here for details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/matthew-ho...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...

"Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I haven't seen it yet, but word has it that the new show "The Lowdown" uses a painting by Joe Brainard (!?) as a plot point, and features a character reading "I Remember"?

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

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.

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.