John Ashbery (from KCRW Bookworm.com ) One of the greatest poets in contemporary American literature, John Ashbery , passed away this ...

John Ashbery receiving the National Medal for the Arts from President Barack Obama, in 2012 Today is the 90th birthday of John Ashbery...

He is 85 years old, and one of the most famous living American poets, a vital figure in mid-to-late 20th century experimental poetics, a ...

Kenneth Koch, Patsy Southgate, Frank O'Hara Here is a snippet from one of the Lost and Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ...

September is nearly over, the quarter charges forward, my classes have begun.  This fall I am teaching two fiction classes, one undergrad...

Months after many Congressional Democrats and some of their Republican colleagues, along with many critics in the blogosphere, repeatedly ca...