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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 8d

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

defector.com/good-riddanc...

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · 9d

"Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Wildest Blackberry Poems by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Others

Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit.

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for this!

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · 11d

I've been told that the screenshot is actually from "Reservation Dogs," which is also directed by Sterlin Harjo, who (like Brainard) is from Oklahoma and is a big Brainard fan.

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · 11d

Too bad Wikipedia calls him “Jim Brainard” and links to a page about a Republican mayor of Carmel, Indiana, who doesn’t, as far as I can tell, make art

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · 11d

I haven't seen it yet, but word has it that the new show "The Lowdown" uses a painting by Joe Brainard (!?) as a plot point, and features a character reading "I Remember"?

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · 15d

Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...

A program for a close reading symposium at Emory University on November 7, 2025, in Room 208 in Convocation Hall, from 8:15 to 5:15, with breakfast, lunch, and panels on studying, teaching, and evaluating close reading, and close reading across the disciplines

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Aug 29

Amazing

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · Aug 28

read these two pulp novels the last few days, both written under pseudonyms & with amazing poetry connections—“Always Love a Stranger” (1961) by Joe LeSueur as “Roger Davis” & “Vietnam Nurse” (1966) by Fanny Howe as “Della Field”

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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social · Aug 13

Opera, illness, gay cosmopolitans, S&M, glorious poems: I wrote about the poet James Schuyler & Nathan Kernan’s excellent new biography. Free post, no paywall. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/there-was-... @fsgbooks.bsky.social

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Aug 4

Dan Chiasson has a great review of the new James Schuyler biography by Nathan Kernan in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility

Schuyler once told a friend that “life had been after him with a sledgehammer.” But the poet’s work was sharp and humane, a marvel of twentieth-century literature.

www.newyorker.com

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Jul 28

Happy birthday to John Ashbery, who would’ve turned 98 today. “The past is dust and ashes, and this incommensurably wide way leads to the pragmatic and kinetic future.”

newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/o...

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Jul 26

Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan, from Alex Katz’s “Face of the Poet” series, 1978

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Jul 25

The poet Frank O'Hara died after a tragic accident on Fire Island, NY, 59 years ago today. Here's the obituary from the NY Times & O'Hara's gravestone. "When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf / to turn away from the sun - it loves it there." newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/t...

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Jul 14

Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Jul 10

Kind of crazy to go from introducing my 13-year-old daughter to the music of Frankie Cosmos (name inspired by Frank O'Hara!) to her interviewing Greta Kline and writing this feature a decade later @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social

www.pastemagazine.com/music/franki...

It’s Frankie Cosmos’ Universe and We’re All Living In It

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · Jul 9

We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/YtQzXpd

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jun 11

Today, a second conversation about the late Alice Notley. The brilliant poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joined me to talk about grief and life in the underworld in Notley’s extraordinary epic The Descent of Alette. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette)

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 06/11/2025 · 1h 41m

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Jun 10

Evan Kindley (@evankindley.bsky.social) reviews Nathan Kernan's long-awaited new biography of the great James Schuyler for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Miracles of James Schuyler

Nathan Kernan’s biography of the New York School poet tracks the development of his serene and joyful work alongside the chaos of his life.

www.thenation.com

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Jun 10

Ah - can't wait to listen to this!

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jun 9

I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.”

“making life, not explaining anything”

I missed having these conversations.

open.spotify.com/episode/6fLF...

Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States")

Close Readings · Episode

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Jun 6

Great to see this tribute to Alice Notley (1945-2025) at McNally Jackson Books in NY (SoHo)

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · Jun 2

The New York Times's obituary for the great Alice Notley (1945-2025)

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

Alice Notley, Poet Celebrated for ‘Restless Reinvention,’ Dies at 79

www.nytimes.com

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · May 21

Thanks for sharing, Jordan!

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