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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 12d

“I became more obvious to myself, I discovered I was an unabashed location of unreported events of the Spirit…”

Alice Notley

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm glad someone's finally written this. When Frank died he was world-famous as a curator - truly a vital figure in modern art, then people discovered he was a genius on his lunch hour, now here we are. The poems aren't going anywhere. I look forward to this book balancing things out.

New book:

FRANK O'HARA AND MOMA

NEW YORK POET, GLOBAL CURATOR

MATTHEW HOLMAN

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 23d

Art historian Matthew Holman highlights ten essential works at MoMA, from a collection of 200,000 modern and contemporary pieces.

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The Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social · 3h

Order a copy of Holman's book from Bloomsbury & join us next week for an online conversation with him & poet-art critic John Yau

www.bloomsbury.com/us/frank-oha...

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The Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social · 3h

"Had not all beautiful things become real on Wednesday?"

Matthew Holman in conversation with John Yau about the new book "Frank O'Hara & MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator."

Join us via Zoom on Thursday 10/16 @ 12pm ET / 5pm BST. Register via the link below!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/matthew-ho...

Matthew Holman's Frank O'Hara & MoMA: an NNYSS book launch! (with John Yau)

The Network for New York School Studies presents the online launch of Matthew Holman's 'Frank O'Hara and MoMA' with Matthew and John Yau.

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Daniel Kane @dkanepoetry.bsky.social · 29d

Poets and poetry publishers - if you want your books considered for review in the journal Studia Neophilologica, please send them on to my attention, Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3L, Box 527, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. @nysnetwork.bsky.social

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The Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social · 3d

I remember disco. xo

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · Aug 8

Really looking forward to seeing Kyla’s book out in the world

Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · Aug 8

Kyla Houbolt

[l love the old Chinese mountain poets]
I love the old Chinese mountain poets writing their poems on cave walls.
One might say,
- my hemp robe is threadbare the wind is cold my poem on stone illusion on illusion tea water boiling —
This morning three Greenway poems were gone from their trees. Thrown away?
Taken to keep? Who can say?
There's music in the water boiling. I'll put more poems there.
Writing this
I burn my oatmeal.

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The Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 31

Excited to read this - congratulations!

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 30

My book Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public is available for pre-order! I am excited to share it with the world. Find it on the Columbia UP site with endorsements from Anthony Reed, Leigh Claire La Berge, Sarah Dowling and Craig Dworkin cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Poetry in General | Columbia University Press

In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of or... | CUP

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The Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is wonderful to read, and reminds me of one of my favourite O'Hara poems, 'John Button Birthday' - 'And in 1984 I trust we'll still / be high together. I'll say "Let's go to a bar" / and you'll say "Let's go to a movie" and we'll go to both'

The Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 30

So excited for this!

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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · Jul 29

@nysnetwork.bsky.social - Celebrating the great James Schuyler - allenginsberg.org/2025/07/t-29...

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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · Jul 30

@nysnetwork.bsky.social - John Button (1929-1982) - Fascinating forgotten figure of the New York School - allenginsberg.org/2025/07/w-j-...

John Button (1929-1982) - The Allen Ginsberg Project

John Button in John Kingland’s apartment, NYC, January 1, 1953 -photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate John Button (1929-1982), a sadly forgotten but imp...

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · Jul 11

I was sorry to hear of the death of the poet Fanny Howe this week. She had a way of saying things very directly that somehow you had never thought of before. For example:

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · Nov 27

Fanny Howe, 'The Virtues of Verse'

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Daniel Kane @dkanepoetry.bsky.social · Jul 2

Just learned about a review of "Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard," that has arguably the best tagline yet - "Any time is horny time." glreview.org/article/any-... @nysnetwork.bsky.social

‘Any time is horny time.’ - The Gay & Lesbian Review

glreview.org

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The Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is a fabulous interview (Elinor Nauen / David Beaudouin): blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

NYSP::IOU – Elinor Nauen / David Beaudouin

NYSP :: IOU is a series devoted to exploring a single question: how has the New York School of Poetry (NYSP)—its aesthetics and shenanigans—influenced contemporary poetics in general and certain poets...

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sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · Jun 23

JIM DINE

Kenneth Koch Poem (Mikro 39),
1966
Color lithograph on blue grey wove paper with deckled edges
Edition 20/31

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Evan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social · Jun 10

I reviewed Nathan Kernan's long-awaited biography of James Schuyler for The Nation 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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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · May 17

All the ModPo resources on/about Bernadette Mayer right here: modpo.org/explore/?art...

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · Jun 6

John Ashbery

PORTRAIT WITH A GOAT

We were reading to ourselves. Sometimes to others.
I was quietly reading the margin
when the doves fell, it was blue
outside. Perhaps in a moment,
he said. The moment never came.
I was reading something else now,
it didn’t matter. Other people came and
dropped off their résumés. I wasn’t being idle,
exactly. Someone wanted to go away
altogether in this preposterous season.

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Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social · May 9

Rare photo of 4 New York School poets together -- John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler at a party in 1955, young, laughing, full of life. For more on the photo: newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/r...

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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.

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

Close Readings · Episode

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jun 13

The third and final conversation in a series on the late Alice Notley. I talked with my friend, the poet, translator, and scholar Lindsay Turner, about what it means to be a mother and a poet in Notley’s “Waltzing Matilda.” open.spotify.com/episode/3vyW...

Lindsay Turner on Alice Notley (Waltzing Matilda: "Dec. 12, 1980")

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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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