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On Peter Covino's 'The Right Place to Jump'

Bobby Elliott | Posted 11.21.2012 | Books
Read More: Reginald Shepherd, John Ashbery, Edward Hirsch, Wallace Stevens, Collection, Poet, The Right Place to Jump, Peter Covino, Poetry, New Issues, Cut Off the Ears of Winter, Books News
Bobby Elliott

I think the kind of poems Peter Covino writes more often than any other are good poems. This was the case in Cut Off the Ears of Winter and it is again in The Right Place to Jump.

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Major Museum Hosts Gay Marriage-Themed Exhibition

Posted 01.09.2012 | Arts
Read More: Langston Hughes, John Ashbery, Neal Benezra, Transgender, Gay Rights, Prop 8, Sfmoma, Lesbian, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober, D-L Alvarez, Gay, The Air We Breathe, Ann Waldman, Simon Jufiwara, Allison Smith, Marriage Equality, Arts News

Art museums are so often understood as sanctuaries in which to preserve the past, so it's rare to experience a museum show instead devoted to understa...

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Words and Pictures: at Tibor de Nagy and Condo's Subversive Art at The New Museum

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Frank O'Hara, Jane Freilicher, Red Grooms, Kanye West, Marc Jacobs, Charles Henri Ford, Anne Waldman. George Condo, Bob Dishy, Jon Robin Baitz, Rudy Burkhardt, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, Allen Ginsberg, Kenward Elmslie, John Ashbery, Alex Katz, Tibor De Nagy, Joe Brainard, Duncan Hannah, LeeLee Sobieski, Judy Hudson, Poet Honore Moore, Joan Mitchell, Arts News
Regina Weinreich

On a random Friday afternoon between snowstorms, visitors to Tibor de Nagy's midtown gallery for the "Painters & Poets" exhibit marveled at the small ...

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Literary Food Fight:

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Slidepollajax, Czeslaw Milosz, Chicano Literature, John Ashbery, African American Poetry, Mexican American Poetry, Gay and Lesbian Literature, American Poetry, Robert Hass, Books News
Anis Shivani

The question of influence is a tricky one in the literary realm, but surely, if there are undeniable progenitors of today's collective poetry output, these are the ones.

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Book Prize: Poet John Ashbery To Be Honored At Brooklyn Book Fest

Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Book News, Brooklyn Book Festival, Ashbery, Book Festivals, John Ashberry, Books, John Ashbery, Brooklyn Book Fest, Book, Books News

The office of the Brooklyn Borough President has announced that John Ashbery, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, will receive the annual Brooklyn Book F...

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Poetry And Ruthless Careerism: How To Become The Most Famous Poet In America Overnight

The Poetry Foundation | Jim Behrle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Authors, Jim Behrle, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Books, Writing, Poets, Jewel, Publicity, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Self Promotion, East Village, Books News

24/7 Relentless Careerism: How you can become the most important poet in America overnight Jim Behrle The Poetry Foundation [Editor's note: Thi...

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