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Category Archives: Guillaume Apollinaire
Kevin Killian (1952-2019)
Like so many others, I’m shocked and heartbroken to learn that the writer Kevin Killian passed away last night. I first met Kevin in 1996, at the “Poetry of the 1950s” conference in Orono, Maine (where he gave a paper … Continue reading
Alex Katz’s Birthday and “The New”
The Allen Ginsberg Project has a good, typically link-rich post up today in honor of the painter Alex Katz’s 87th birthday. (I’ve written before about Katz and his close ties to New York School poetry here and here). Among other things, it … Continue reading
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
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
Andrew Epstein
