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Category Archives: Alice Notley
Happy 90th Birthday to John Ashbery!
Today is the 90th birthday of John Ashbery, who was born on July 27, 1928. At LitHub, Adam Fitzgerald and Emily Skillings have “invited 90 of his dearest friends, collaborators, and admirers to pick a favorite line from his vast … Continue reading
Posted in Alice Notley, Jim Jarmusch, John Ashbery, Paul Muldoon, Poems, Rae Armantrout, Susan Howe
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Laura Kasischke on Alice Notley’s “Descent of Alette”: “radioactive, dangerous, addictive, all-consuming”
Each month, Poetry magazine posts a “Reading List,” in which contributors to the current issue share some books that held their interest. In the May installment, Laura Kasischke offers a rave review of Alice Notley’s masterful, book-length poem, The Descent of … Continue reading
Posted in Alice Notley, Interview, Laura Kasischke, Podcast, Rachel Zucker
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Nick Sturm on Ted Berrigan as Art Critic
There is a great new essay up at Fanzine about Ted Berrigan’s little-known art writing by one of my (now former) graduate students, the terrific poet and scholar Nick Sturm. For months, Sturm has been scouring the Berrigan archives, turning up fascinating … Continue reading
Hooray for Alice Notley, Winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize!
The Poetry Foundation announced today that Alice Notley has been awarded the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. This is a pretty big deal in poetry-land. As the press release puts it: “Presented annually to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments … Continue reading
Posted in Alice Notley, Interview, Podcast
Reading Ted Berrigan’s Poetry: Alice, Anselm, and Edmund
This is quite a treat for fans of the Berrigan/Notley family of poets: Don Yorty recently posted some footage of a reading that took place in 2011 at (the amazing) St. Marks Bookstore in New York to celebrate the publication of The Selected Poems of … Continue reading
Posted in Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Ted Berrigan, Video
The New York School, and more, in Louisville
I’ve just gotten back from the very fun and stimulating Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (directed by the esteemed poetry scholar Alan Golding) which, this year at least, amply demonstrated that scholarly work devoted to the poets of the New York School … Continue reading
Edwin Denby and the New York School: A Reading for Edwin Denby at the Poetry Project
On Wednesday, February 11, the Poetry Project at St. Marks in New York will host “Dancers, Buildings, and People: A Reading for Edwin Denby,” a tribute for Edwin Denby (1903-1983), the poet and dance critic who was such an important … Continue reading
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