Happy James Schuyler Day

To celebrate what I now think of as James Schuyler day, I am reposting June 30, 1974. Happy … More

UCU Strike Poems 10 – from A New Guide, by Kenneth Koch

from A New Guide 7 Look at this arch. It is part of a building more than seven hundred years old. … More

and (Dear James) it occurs to me now, just thinking out loud, that in a way Kenneth and Frank actually were … More

Recently I have featured prose writing by various writers, reshaping them in the form of found poems. Annie Dillard on … More

Being together so much and talking so much and writing poems and showing them to each other so much … More

Joan Mitchell looks to be the only artist of her generation, man or woman, who produced a big, abstract, painterly … More

Reading Thomas Lux’s magnificent new Selected Poems reminded me recently that I first heard his poems before I read them. One of … More

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work … More

Now that we have finally had one in the UK, I found myself wondering recently how many of my Lifesaving Poems choices … More

Locus Scolus: The New York School of Poets is a thing of wonder and beauty. Named after a 1914 French novel by Raymond … More

Psalm How leaky are the borders of man-made states! How many clouds float over them scot-free, how much … More

June 30, 1974 for Jane and Joe Hazan Let me tell you that this weekend Sunday morning in the … More

One of the pleasures of being alive is reading John Ash. Think of a prize-winning poet, someone you think of … More

Here is a revelation: I did not always adore the work of Frank O’Hara. I had pause to consider why … More

I have published a new poem in the style of Kenneth Koch, On Twitter, at Ink Sweat & Tears. Whether … More

I saw the sign above on a wall during a visit I recently made to a school to talk to … More

Over the last few days I have been thinking about the so-called New York school of poets, in posts about … More