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John Ashbery
[This event took place on Thursday, May 14, 2009.]
On a warm wet evening, John Ashbery once again embraced his poetic roots and generously read in the sanctuary of St. Marks as part of a triathlon of events held to raise some very much-needed cash for the Poetry Project. (Reader, are you a member? If not, [...]
Introduction for John Ashbery by Charles North – 14 May 09
It’s not often one gets to introduce a hero, and I thank Stacy for inviting me.
Not to put too fine a point on it—but isn’t it time for John’s urine to be tested? Most poets, as we all know, like ballplayers who don’t take steroids, don’t “produce”—really produce—after the age of 40; that is, if [...]
