Category Archives: Maggie Nelson

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

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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 | 5 Comments

Happy “Midwinter Day” Day!

On December 22, 1978, Bernadette Mayer wrote her groundbreaking, book-length poem, Midwinter Day. In recent years, poets and readers and Mayer fans have gathered to mark the occasion by reading from the book. As Mayer herself told Fanny Howe in a … Continue reading

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Welcome to the “Network for New York School Studies”

Some exciting news for anyone with an abiding interest in the New York School of poets and artists — a brand-new international scholarly organization called the Network for New York School Studies has recently been launched. Founded by scholars Rona … Continue reading

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Happy 40th Birthday to Midwinter Day (by Bernadette Mayer)

“I had an idea to write a book that would … prove the day like the dream has everything in it.” — Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day Today marks the 40th anniversary of an important moment in twentieth-century poetry — the … Continue reading

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“Bluets”: James Schuyler, Carl Phillips, Joan Mitchell, Maggie Nelson, and Lydia Davis

    What a treat to find the great contemporary poet Carl Phillips reflecting on a poem by James Schuyler.  As part of a series he’s doing for Poets House on “poems that approach nature,” Phillips has just published an incisive … Continue reading

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