As Planned

As Planned After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness … More

and (Dear James)

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

Craving silence

‘So I was thinking,’ the book says. ‘Going anywhere nice for Christmas?’ ’Do you want a lift somewhere?’ I say. … More

Towards a model of poetry writing development

As promised last week, here is my presentation of the paper I co-wrote with Sue Dymoke in which we argue on … More

Lifesaving Poems: Tom Andrews’s ‘Reading Frank O’Hara in the Hospital’

Reading Frank O’Hara in the Hospital   1 The IV drips its slow news. So long, lean and turbulent morning! … More

Late January notebook

  […]       you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don’t you are … More

and (Dear James)

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

Kenneth Koch on the New York poets

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

Guest blog post: In praise of Joan Mitchell, by Tamar Yoseloff

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