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Category Archives: David Lehman
Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (8/23/18)
Here’s the latest roundup of recent links, new publications, and news related to the New York School of poets. (For my most recent roundup, see here). — The indie band Deerhunter released an album titled Double Dream of Spring, a … Continue reading
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Frank O’Hara and Bunny: A Tribute to V. R. Lang in new issue of “SpoKe”
The new issue of the Boston-based journal SpoKe has just appeared and it features “A Tribute to V. R. Lang,” an excellent special feature devoted to the writer Violet Lang, known simply as “Bunny” to fans of Frank O’Hara — a.k.a., … Continue reading
New Video of James Schuyler’s Legendary Debut Reading in 1988
A rare video of James Schuyler reading his poems has just surfaced on YouTube, thanks to Raymond Foye, executor of Schuyler’s estate, who posted the video several days ago. [The YouTube clip has subsequently been taken down, but the video … Continue reading
Posted in Charles North, David Lehman, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, Video
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David Lehman’s new translation of Apollinaire’s “Zone”
Among the most important influences in any account of the New York School’s lineage must be the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and perhaps no single Apollinaire poem is as important as his great, landmark 1913 poem “Zone.” There have been many excellent translations of the … Continue reading
Angela Ball’s course on “The New York School Diaspora” and the South — Symposium in May 2014
The poet Angela Ball is guest-blogging this week on the Best American Poetry blog, and she’s been posting about a graduate class she’s teaching this semester at the University of Southern Mississippi on the New York School Poets. Since I’m … Continue reading
Four Introductions to John Ashbery: a PennSound Podcast
The most recent PennSound podcast serves up a treat — a new compilation of introductions given to John Ashbery over the years. The podcast, announced on Jacket2 last week, features enlightening introductions to Ashbery’s work by Kenneth Koch in 1963, Richard Howard in 1967, Susan … Continue reading
Posted in David Lehman, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Podcast, Richard Howard
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David Lehman’s New and Selected Poems
Speaking of David Lehman, whose review of Ron Padgett’s Collected I just mentioned in the previous post: his New and Selected Poems — a volume that gathers together work from his own long and celebrated career — has just been published, today … Continue reading
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Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems, reviewed by David Lehman
Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems has just appeared from Coffee House Press, and to welcome its arrival, there’s a good review of the book by David Lehman in Publishers Weekly. Lehman writes: Long a mainstay of the New York School’s second generation, … Continue reading
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Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets 