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Category Archives: Patti Smith
Frank O’Hara and Indie Punk (Having a Coke with Martha)
Longtime readers of this blog probably know I’m always on the lookout for moments when Frank O’Hara or other poets of the New York School pop up in the world of music. O’Hara, especially, continues to haunt the history and … Continue reading
Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (5/16/18)
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). – They Knew What They Wanted, the gorgeous new collection of John Ashbery’s collages … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Katz, Alice Notley, Andy Warhol, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, collaboration, David Shapiro, Frank O'Hara, Gerard Malanga, Interview, Jane Freilicher, Jim Carroll, Jim Jarmusch, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, John Wieners, John Yau, Joseph Lease, Kenneth Koch, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, NY School Influence, Patti Smith, Paul Violi, Poems, Poetry Project at St. Marks, Ron Padgett, Roundup, Velvet Underground, Visual Art, William Carlos Williams
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Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore Talks Poetry with Daniel Kane
The musician Thurston Moore — one of the founders of the groundbreaking experimental rock band Sonic Youth — has deep and long-standing ties to the New York School of poets, and to avant-garde poetics more broadly. After all, he did recently record a song called “Frank O’Hara … Continue reading
Garth Risk Hallberg and the Formative Influence of Frank O’Hara and the New York School
The literary world has been abuzz recently over the publication of City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg’s massive new novel about New York City in the 1970s. The 36-year old Hallberg received a jaw-dropping $2 million advance for the book (his first … Continue reading
Patti Smith on Lou Reed: “He recited the great poets — Rupert Brooke, Hart Crane, Frank O’Hara”
As someone who has been trying to make the case that there’s an important and under-recognized connection between the New York School of poets and Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, I know that for some skeptics, one nagging fact gets … Continue reading
Posted in Frank O'Hara, Lou Reed, Music, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground
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Patti Smith: Horses “Evolved Organically From My First Poetry Reading”
Via the Poetry Project at St. Marks, I came across this brief video posted by the music site/magazine NME featuring Patti Smith, called “My First Gig: Desecrating a Church with Electric Guitar.” Smith talks about her first performance “worthy of remembering,” which was … Continue reading
Patti Smith Pays Tribute to John Ashbery at the National Arts Club
If you felt a little cosmic jolt at some point last night, it may have been thanks to the surprise confluence of two brilliant and revered artists in one place and one special moment. Last night, in New York, John Ashbery was given the National … Continue reading
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Andrew Epstein
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets 