PSA: Ashbery festival next week!

John Ashbery Festival
Thurs.-Sat., April 6-8

The New School
66 West 12th Street
212.229.5611 or writingprogram@newschool.edu

The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
(between Houston & Bleecker)

[NOTE: I don't have info on admission/tickets yet, if any. I'm trying to get that now. In the meantime, you might call the program at the number above, or the New School box office at Tishman Auditorium: (212) 229-5488, M-Th 1-8 p.m., or F 1-7 p.m.]

The New School graduate Writing Program is pleased to sponsor this three-day festival honoring the great American poet John Ashbery. Ashbery has won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, as well as MacArthur, Guggenheim, and other fellowships. He is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including Some Trees (1956), Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), A Wave (1984), Can You Hear, Bird (1994), and Where Shall I Wander (2005). He is also the author of three books of critical prose and co-author, with James Schuyler, of the novel A Nest of Ninnies. In 1988 he served as the inaugural editor of "The Best American Poetry" series. He holds a titled professorship at Bard College. During the three days of the festival, poets, critics, and scholars from far-flung places will discuss various aspects of Ashbery's achievement.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thurs., April 6

1:00 p.m.

Ashbery's Landscapes: Marit MacArthur, Timothy Gray, Ann Mikkelsen, and Kacper Bartczak on an Ashbery poem, room 510.

2:30 p.m.

Selected Prose and Selected Translations: David Kermani, Micaela Morrissette, Eugene Richie, and Rosanna Wasserman, room 510.

4:30 p.m.

Poets and Artists: Jane Hammond, Archie Rand, Jane Freilicher, and Karen Wright, Tishman Auditorium.

7:30 p.m.

Homage to Ashbery: A Group Reading: introduced by David Lehman. Mark Bibbins, Star Black, Marc Cohen, Billy Collins, Douglas Crase, Jacek Gutorow, Daniel Halpern, Vicki Hudspith, Tomoyuki Iino, Deborah Landau, Ann Lauterbach, James Longenbach, Geoffrey O'Brien, Ron Padgett, Robert Polito, Pawel Marcinkiewicz, David Shapiro, James Tate, Susan Wheeler, Dara Wier, and John Yau, Tishman Auditorium.

Fri., April 7

11:00 a.m.

Roger Glbert, James Longenbach, Meghan O'Rourke, Jacek Gutorow, and Melcion Mateu-Adrover, room 510.

2:00 p.m.

Tomoyuki Iino, Jennifer Quilter, Andrew DuBois John Emil Vincent, Pawel Marcinkiewicz, and William Burgos, room 510.

4:30 p.m.

John Koethe, Dara Wier, John Yau, and Lacy Rumsey room 510.

7:30 p.m.

John Ashbery introduced by James Tate, Tishman Auditorium.

Sat., April 8

2:00 p.m.

The Heroes: Bob Holman, Vicki Hudspith, and David Lehman, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (at Bleecker).

3:00 p.m.

"Litany": John Ashbery and Ann Lauterbach, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (at Bleecker).