Helen Hennessy Vendler (1933–2024)
no reader, no critic, no teacher has meant more to me. her inexhaustible work is our common bounty; getting to know her was my inconceivably good luck

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Patti Smith and Dylan Thomas getting some high visibility on the Taylor Swift display by the front door at Barnes and Noble in NYC

A. O. Scott does a 'Close Read' of Frank O'Hara's beloved 'Having a Coke With You' for the New York Times Books
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It's April, and amid everything 'we dust the walls / and of course we are weeping larks'. Read on for the Network's latest news, reviews, events, and more: nnyss.org/blognews/april…

BREAKING: Abortion and marijuana will be on Florida ballots in November, 2024.

Florida’s top court upheld the state's 15-week abortion ban, but allowed a measure protecting abortion to go on the ballot this fall – a potential nosedive for DeSantis. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

Back in the Sidecar New Left Review with an essay on the poet, critic, and visual artist Wayne Koestenbaum (aka Wayne Koestenbaum) whose new collection STUBBLE ARCHIPELAGO is out now from Semiotext(e).
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Happy birthday to the incomparable Frank O'Hara, who was born on this day in 1926, but never knew it. (His parents claimed his birthday was 6/27 to hide that they’d gotten pregnant out of wedlock).

'Each day's light has more significance these days'
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RIP Marjorie Perloff (1931-2024). Marjorie was one of the most important, influential scholars of modernist and contemporary poetry, and a generous mentor and friend to me and countless others. She was a force of nature and she'll be deeply missed. facebook.com/andrew.epstein…

These are connected to my version of America
But the juice is elsewhere. poetryfoundation.org/poems/101694/t…

Ben Lerner dives into the work of James Schuyler in a recent lecture / belated birthday tribute, published by Paris Review

A pleasant surprise to stumble on Fairfield Porter’s “John Ashbery (Argyle Socks)” (1952) at the National Portrait Gallery in DC

For Interview Magazine, I spoke with my friend Wayne Koestenbaum—nonpareil poet, critic, visual artist, performer, filmmaker, and fellow pleasure-seeker, whose latest book of poetry, Stubble Archipelago is out today from Semiotext(e). interviewmagazine.com/literature/way…

What is poetry for? What does it do? I talked with Robert Volpicelli about W. H. Auden’s “In Memory of W. B. Yeats,” a great poem, written in a moment of historical crisis, about poetry’s limits. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clo…

“Lyn, nine years older than me, helped define the world I would inhabit for the rest of my life.”

Charles Bernstein remembers Lyn Hejinian. buff.ly/3V8QUUY

interesting response

Really excited to share this one. 20+ writers, 20,000 words on the 40+ best David Berman songs and poems.

Happy Leap Day! “Locating Lorine Niedecker” is here, & it’s fearless. Edited by Brandon Menke (@bamenke.bsky.social) & Sarah Dimick, with pieces by Menke, Dimick, Hoa Nguyen, Sasha Steensen, Samia Rahimtoola, & Michelle Niemann post45.org/sections/conte…. The cluster also includes 'The Marsh,' 9 sets of poems!