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Author Archives: Andrew Epstein
Succession, Jeremy Strong, and Frank O’Hara
One of the best TV series of recent years, Succession, will be airing its much-awaited finale on Sunday night. As many of the show’s obsessive fans know, poetry has played a subtle but key role in Succession: for mysterious but … Continue reading
Geoffrey O’Brien on Joe Brainard (and John Yau’s new book)
In the current issue of The New York Review of Books, Geoffrey O’Brien has a great review of a new book by the poet and art critic John Yau, Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal. According to O’Brien, Yau … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Books, collaboration, Geoffrey O'Brien, Joe Brainard, John Yau, Visual Art
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Having a Coke with Brian Glavey and Kamran Javadizadeh
What could be more fun than listening to two brilliant scholars having a chat about one of your favorite poems? The first installment of an exciting new podcast series hosted by the poetry scholar Kamran Javadizadeh went live yesterday, and … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Glavey, Frank O'Hara, Kamran Javadizadeh, Podcast, Poems, Vincent Warren
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Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore Pays Tribute to Ted Berrigan
In a recent interview, the musician Thurston Moore, founder of the groundbreaking experimental rock band Sonic Youth, was asked “who he would choose to spend an hour with if he could, dead or alive,” and his answer was Ted Berrigan, … Continue reading
Posted in Frank O'Hara, Music, NY School Influence, Ted Berrigan, Thurston Moore
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Saluting That Various Field On James Schuyler’s Birthday
Happy birthday to the poet James Schuyler, born on this day in 1923. Here is “Salute,” his first published poem (!) and one of his signature pieces. “Past / is past. I salute / that various field.” And here is … Continue reading
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“The Ping Jockey School of Poetry”: A. R. Ammons, Frank O’Hara, and James Schuyler
The poet A. R. Ammons never fit comfortably into any of the well-defined groups and movements of post-1945 American poetry — he wasn’t part of the Beat movement, or Confessional poetry, or the Deep Image movement, or any other group. … Continue reading
Posted in A. R. Ammons, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, Poems
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John Murillo and Nicole Sealey read and discuss an Anne Waldman poem
As part of the Paris Review‘s “Poets on Couches” series, John Murillo and Nicole Sealey recently discussed “How To Write,” a wonderful poem by Anne Waldman that was originally published in Paris Review in 1968. After Sealey reads the poem, … Continue reading
Posted in Anne Waldman, John Murillo, Nicole Sealey, Poems, Video
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Happy “Midwinter Day” Day!
On December 22, 1978, Bernadette Mayer wrote her groundbreaking, book-length poem, Midwinter Day. In recent years, poets and readers and Mayer fans have gathered to mark the occasion by reading from the book. As Mayer herself told Fanny Howe in a … Continue reading
Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (11/15/21)
Here is one of my semi-regular roundups of recent links and news related to the New York School of poets. (Previous roundups can be found here).
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Andrew Epstein
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets 