Category Archives: Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner’s Oblique Elegy For John Ashbery

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Andrew Epstein

“I find the moments of beauty and possibility opening up in John Ashbery’s work inexhaustibly beautiful,” the fiction writer and poet Ben Lerner recently said in an interview.  This is certainly not surprising – Ashbery is a fixture in virtually … Continue reading →

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Remembering John Ashbery (1927-2017)

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Andrew Epstein

This past Sunday, September 3, brought the very sad news that John Ashbery had passed away at the age of 90.  Ashbery has long been regarded as the greatest and most influential living American poet, so it is not surprising … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Ben Lerner, Fairfield Porter, Frank O'Hara, Harry Mathews, In Memoriam, Jack Spicer, James Merrill, Jane Freilicher, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Larry Rivers, Mark Ford, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Creeley | 11 Comments

“To the Memory of Joe Brainard”: Kent Johnson’s I Once Met

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

“To the memory of Joe Brainard” reads the dedication to Kent Johnson‘s new book, I Once Met: A Partial Memoir of the Poetry Field.  A revised and expanded version of a limited-edition chapbook of the same title that Johnson published in 2007, the book … Continue reading →

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