Category Archives: Wallace Stevens

Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (4/2/18)

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Andrew Epstein

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). — Jeremy Noel-Tod reviews Karin Roffman’s biography of John Ashbery’s early years and reflects … Continue reading →

Posted in Aime Cesaire, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Book Review, Charles North, Criticism, Douglas Crase, Eileen Myles, Elizabeth BIshop, Interview, Jack Spicer, James Schuyler, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, John Koethe, John Yau, Kenward Elmslie, Kevin Killian, Music, NY School Influence, Patti Smith, Peter Gizzi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Roundup, Ted Berrigan, Uncategorized, Visual Art, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams | 3 Comments

Frank Lima’s Ode to the New York School of Poets

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

The poet Frank Lima, who passed away in 2013, was an important yet undersung member of the New York School of poetry’s second generation.  Although he was close with Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, David Shapiro, and many other poets of the first and … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Beats, David Shapiro, Frank Lima, Frank O'Hara, Guillaume Apollinaire, Joe LeSueur, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman | 1 Comment

Kenneth Koch on His Bad Teenage Poetry, His Influences, and Teaching Poetry to Children

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

In his groundbreaking books Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get that Red?, Kenneth Koch laid out a set of creative and inspiring ideas about teaching children how to write poetry that continue to serve as an invaluable resource for teachers and … Continue reading →

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Robert Motherwell exhibit at the Guggenheim: Motherwell and Frank O’Hara

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Andrew Epstein

Last week, the NY Times reviewed a new show at the Guggenheim devoted to the work of Robert Motherwell, the Abstract-Expressionist painter and friend to Frank O’Hara and other New York poets.  The review, by Holland Cotter, refers to it … Continue reading →

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“Letters of the New York School,” panel at the American Literature Association conference, Boston (May 25, 2013)

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Andrew Epstein

If you’re interested to see the kind of scholarly work being done on poets of the New York School lately, check out the panel that the “New York School Society” hosted at this year’s American Literature Association Conference in Boston … Continue reading →

Posted in Bernadette Mayer, Conferences and Talks, Frank O'Hara, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, Wallace Stevens | Leave a comment