I maintain that if adults read wishes, lies and dreams and rose, where did you get that red by kenneth koch it would improve their metaphor literacy by 1000%

"In 1970, Kenneth Koch published a groundbreaking book about writing poetry with kids. Half a century later, Jess Shane tracks down his students to ask what it meant for their lives" ❤️ - "What's Inside the Moon," Signal Hill Issue 3

Issue Three

Where we're coming from and where we're going.

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

Signal Hill — a new audio documentary magazine — has just released its first issue! Featuring pieces on kite festivals, Robin D. G. Kelley’s oral histories, sheep farms, caterpillars, protest sounds, and more

The poet Frank O'Hara died 60 years ago today at the age of 40, after a tragic accident on Fire Island, NY. Here's a piece I wrote for the Poetry Foundation to mark the 50th anniversary in 2016, about O'Hara's posthumous legacy: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/900...

So I'm starting a podcast about friendship and aesthetic experience called "Some Marvelous Experience." I've posted a brief teaser that explains a little bit about the main idea and will drop the first episode soon. Please subscribe and help me spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Some Marvelous Experience

Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...

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I'm so excited for Brian Glavey's new book, "Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets," to be out in the world! @glavey.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 2w ago

OK, if you were waiting to find out what kind of fox I am before you pre-ordered Relatability, wait no more. These generous blurbs (or blurps, as O'Hara called them) just posted and I am seriously verklempt. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Paying my respects to David Berman (and Jasper Johns) at the Whitney Museum

It's neat to see Sianne Ngai chooses the speaker of Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems" as one of "Three Pivotal Characters from American Literature" in this piece in the New York Times (alongside Pynchon's Oedipa Mass and Morrison's Sula). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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beautiful piece by my friend Hugh Foley on Ashbery and grief: Very little has changed in my conception of what the ideal life might look like. You sing a song and this provides for you to sit with your friends a little while. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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On reading grief through John Ashbery, or the other way round

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"the curators should have looked elsewhere for a way to understand the role of Surrealism in the American art of the 1960s.John Ashbery...wrote some suggestive words on Surrealism that have been too little noticed"- Barry Schwabsky on Surrealism @ Whitney www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Did We Get the History of Modern American Art Wrong?

The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism.

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"New Year is nearly here and who, knowing himself, would endanger his desires resolving them in a formula?" -- James Schuyler, "Empathy and New Year" newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/j...

James Schuyler’s “Empathy and New Year”

Around New Year’s Eve, I often think of James Schuyler’s great and moving poem about the turning of the year, “Empathy and New Year” (which first appeared as the opening poe…

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Madelyn Dawson writes about Joe Brainard and "The Complete C Comics" for the Brooklyn Rail -- brooklynrail.org/2025/12/art_...

Joe Brainard’s The Complete C Comics | The Brooklyn Rail

This collection makes clear how much pleasure Brainard took not only in the form of the comic but in the form of a magazine of comics: the collaborative methodology of passing work between friends, th...

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PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: RELAX! “People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...

Lucy Sante on Joe Brainard and the Complete C Comics

‘A Cartoon Revival’ | Lucy Sante

The illustrated poems, satirical ads, and talking shoes that filled the pages of C Comics.

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My daughter Casey wrote this review of the new Mountain Goats album! @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9mo ago

this review of the album we have coming out tomorrow is critical in the very best way -- the author asks good & fair questions about how my lyrics work differently within the more-details environment of a stage-musical conceit, and, v. importantly for me, 1/2 www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-mo...

One of the best Louvre heist stories -- the time Apollinaire and Picasso were wrongly accused of stealing the Mona Lisa (but were definitely neck-deep in a case of statues being stolen from the museum) www.thecollector.com/did-guillaum...

Did Guillaume Apollinaire Steal the Mona Lisa? | TheCollector

The great 20th century writer Guillaume Apollinaire was once embroiled in an art heist. But did he really steal the Mona Lisa?

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On 'Neon Grey Midnight Green,' Neko Case insists that grief sharpens rather than clouds reality, and that connection—human and animal alike—is the antidote to dread.

COVER STORY | Neko Case Won't Be Tamed

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.

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This Thursday, there will be a Zoom talk between Matthew Holman & John Yau about Holman's new book, "Frank O'Hara & MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator," hosted by the Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social. See here for details: 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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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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"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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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"?

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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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...

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”

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

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.

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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...

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

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...