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Flow Chart Foundation Celebrates Ten Years of “Locus Solus”
2023 was an anniversary year for this humble blog, since it has been 10 years since I decided to create a website devoted to the New York School of poets and artists and name it Locus Solus, after the legendary little magazine that briefly … Continue reading
Posted in John Ashbery, Locus Solus, Video
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“These Little Oases: A Gathering”: New York City Symposium and Poetry Reading (October 28, 2023)
Next Saturday, October 28, there will be a symposium and poetry reading in New York hosted by the Network for New York School Studies (a recently founded organization I wrote about previously here) in conjunction with the Brooklyn Rail. It … Continue reading
Celebrating Bernadette Mayer on Bloomsday: “I’m always getting ready to do my version of ‘Ulysses'”
Happy Bloomsday! Over the past few years, to mark this special day, I’ve had a tradition of reflecting on Joyce’s powerful but little-discussed influence on the poetry of the New York School, as you can see in these posts about … Continue reading
On Ten Years of “Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets”
Almost exactly 10 years ago, I decided to create a website devoted to the New York School of poets and artists and name it Locus Solus, after the legendary little magazine that briefly served as the movement’s house journal. Even … Continue reading
Posted in Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Locus Solus, NY School Influence
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Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (6/8/23)
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). Solomon also offers a tantalizing and exciting hint for Brainardiacs: “I had heard on the … Continue reading
Posted in Alexandra Gold, Alfred Leslie, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Book Review, Books, Deborah Solomon, Douglas Crase, Eileen Myles, Film, Frank O'Hara, In Memoriam, James Schuyler, Jess Cotton, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, Lorine Niedecker, Maggie Nelson, Marianne Moore, Morton Feldman, Music, Ned Rorem, Nick Sturm, Olivier Brossard, Peter Gizzi, Peter Schjeldahl, Poetry Project at St. Marks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frank, Rona Cran, Rosa Campbell, Roundup, Trevor Winkfield, Visual Art
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“Close Readings” of New York School Poets — Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch (and Much More)
As I mentioned back in December, the poetry scholar Kamran Javadizadeh recently launched a fun and edifying new podcast called “Close Readings.” As Javadizadeh describes it, each week he “talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single … Continue reading
Book Announcement: “The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945”
I’m pleased to announce that my third book, The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945, was recently published by Cambridge University Press. The book is part of Cambridge’s “Introduction to Literature Series,” and is designed to be a wide-ranging and … 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).
Posted in Abstract Expressionism, Alice Notley, Andy Warhol, Ange Mlinko, Art Exhibit, Ben Lerner, Bernadette Mayer, Charles North, Criticism, Emily Skillings, Etel Adnan, Film, Frank O'Hara, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Jasper Johns, Joan Mitchell, John Ashbery, John Yau, Kamran Javadizadeh, Larry Rivers, Lou Reed, Peter Schjeldahl, Poetry Project at St. Marks, Roundup, Trevor Winkfield, Velvet Underground, Video, Visual Art
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Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets 