had the absolute time of my life speaking with the incomparable kristin hersh for this Throwing Muses profile out in Paste Magazine today! bit of a crazy bucket list moment :') pastemagazine.com/music/throwing…

If you had told me in 1994 after I bought "Hips and Makers" that in 2025 my own daughter would have the chance to interview kristin hersh and write a big profile of her and Throwing Muses ... Well, I'm not sure what I would've said but I would have had a very strong reaction

Andrew Epstein - Kenneth Koch-Allen Ginsberg collaboration - 2 Making It Up - Popeye and William Blake - allenginsberg.org/2025/02/t-f-25…

Andrew Epstein - Celebrating the Kenneth Koch Centennial.   allenginsberg.org/2025/02/t-f-27…

PennSound Daily: James Schuyler "on the Day Before March First" PennSound pennsounddaily.blogspot.com/2025/02/james-…

David Wallace writes about Joe Brainard and the new selection of his letters (edited by Daniel Kane)

The #KUenglish Dept is excited to welcome Andrew Epstein Fri 4/4 @ 4 for a Gunn Memorial Lecture: "William James, Attention, & Post-1945 American Poetry." More details at calendar.ku.edu/event/andrew-e… We hope to see you there!

What makes a great American poem? The Atlantic surveyed more than 450 people—including poets, fiction writers, publishers, editors, and informed readers—in setting out to name the best poetry collections from the past 25 years. Read the list: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

I wrote about memorizing poems as a kind of soul-making—an antidote for social media zombification. Link in profile.

“April is the seduction of the world. And yet.” — Joshua Clover (RIP)

Kenneth Koch at 100 -- tributes and celebrations to the great poet and his legacy, including at the New School in February and one coming up on 5/17 at the Flow Chart Foundation (flowchartfoundation) in Hudson, NY, which I'm honored to be participating in newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/ken…

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/rar…

Last month I delivered a talk on psychoanalysis and poetry at Saint Mark's Church. Today, it appears in the The Paris Review. I wrote it at JClo's house, and he makes an appearance: theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05/1…

The New York Times's obituary for the great Alice Notley (1945-2025) nytimes.com/2025/06/02/boo…

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

I talked with Nick Sturm 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/6fLF1D…

Evan Kindley (Evan Kindley) reviews Nathan Kernan's long-awaited new biography of the great James Schuyler for The Nation thenation.com/article/cultur…

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/clo…

Out on the road today, I saw a Deahead sticker on a Cybertruck / A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back"

dexys midnight runners is NOT a one-hit-wonder and that is a hill i will absolutely die on