John Ashbery’s “The Short Answer”
Here is the text of Ashbery’s poem “The Short Answer” from his book Quick Question. This was the basis of a PoemTalk episode which can be heard and viewed HERE. The Short Answer I...
Category: New York School
Notes on Barbara Guest’s “20”
ModPo citizen John Kamholz recently responded to reading Guest’s poem “20” with the following observation: When I was in Seville, my son and I went to a flamenco bar. The dancing started at midnight...
John Yau poems in ModPoPLUS week 7
We recently added two new poems—and a new video for each poem—to our John Yau entry in ModPoPLUS. See list and links below. These are now part of the week 7 syllabus in ModPoPLUS....
re-reading Ashbery’s “Hard Times” in a time of pandemic
During our May 13, 2020, live interactive webcast, we talked about re-reading John Ashbery’s “Hard Times” a time of pandemic. Here is that segment of the webcast:
New video: on Mayer’s “The Incorporation of Sophia’s Cereal”
We’ve long admired how Bernadette Mayer incorporates things, scenes, people, occasions from her daily life in her poems. This is at the heart of the New York School style, of course. Then there’s the...
We recommend Ashbery’s “Hard Times”
Today i want to mention and recommend just one poem we read this week—John Ashbery’s “Hard Times.” Ashbery is not really—or not often directly, anyway—a political poet. But “Hard Times” gives you a sense...
Welcome to week 7 on the New York School (plus *news* of new poems & videos)
Today (Sunday, October 20) we begin week 7 of ModPo 2019. This week we will be reading and discussing the New York School poets. In the main ModPo syllabus we encounter Frank O’Hara, Barbara...
On the experience of re-reading the New York School
During a 2018 live webcast for week 7, we discussed the experience of re-reading the New York School poets. Here is that 4-minute clip:
added to ModPoPLUS: Lytle Shaw’s response to Frank O’Hara
Just now added to the New York School week of ModPoPLUS (week 7)—a new video in which Lytle Shaw joins us in discussing his “homophobic translation” of Frank O’Hara’s “At the Old Place”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/rIKLc...