John Ashbery has received nearly every major writing award the literary world has to offer, and his work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Author of twenty poetry collections, ...

New York? Poet John Ashbery is doomed with the “D” word: Most people think his poems are “difficult.” “I think ‘difficult’ is often used interchangeably with ‘complex’ or ...

Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who sought to create an anti-academic, hedonistic ...