John Adams

Begin anywhere:

The Short Takes on Long Poems symposium

Jack Ross

Robert Sullivan & John Adams read in Old Government House, Auckland

I'm taking the beach-poem at its word, and beginning anywhere.

Oneroa Beach Poem

In my case, since I’m just back from the Short Takes on Long Poems symposium at the University of Auckland, I thought I might start there.

March 31, 2012

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First reading of Rae Armantrout's 'Spin' (2)

Katie Price

First Readings

Katie Price’s short essay on Rae Armantrout’s “Spin” is the second of five first readings of that poem we will publish in this new series. Jennifer Ashton’s was the first. The series page can be found here. — Brian Reed, Craig Dworkin, and Al Filreis

December 9, 2013

Traveling furiously toward you

John Ashbery and the arts

Thomas Devaney

Marcella Durand

Hotel Negresco, 2010, collage, 6 ¼ x 5 ½ inches, by John Ashbery. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.

While painting occupies a primary place in John Ashbery’s sense of the arts, his poems also have to do with the possibilities he has gleaned from individual artists in nearly every medium.

Eugene and Johnny Go Boating Rosanne Wasserman

Star-crossed Trevor Winkfield

Francis Ponge translated by John Ashbery Francis Ponge

Boiled Dinner Jennifer Moxley

Excerpts from 'The Poet as Art Critic' John Yau

In No Time at All Wanda Coleman

Quiet Moon Harry Mathews

Correspondences Marcella Durand

Three poems by Ed Roberson Ed Roberson

Three looks Sandra Lim

The Late Parade Adam Fitzgerald

Personae, wonder, vetch: 'Crowd Conditions' John Emil Vincent