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You asked me if I was a member and what about the New York School. Was I in it? Did it really exist. And I said, "Absolutely." "Certainly." "Of Course." I used to tell people they could join for five dollars, and they would write a certain kind of poem. Then I had an idea that the New York School consisted of whomever I thought. And I could have that idea, see, because there was no New York School.
(Ted Berrigan, Talking in Tranquility, 90-91).
(Ted Berrigan, Talking in Tranquility, 90-91).
Anyone can become a member of the Network for New York School Studies. To join, just send an email to [email protected], with a brief bio, some information about your interest in the New York School, and details of any relevant publications.
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Alireza Abiz is a multi-award-winning Iranian poet, literary scholar, and translator. He has written extensively on Persian contemporary literature and culture. His book Censorship of Literature in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Politics and Culture since 1979 was published by Bloomsbury in 2020. He has published five collections of poetry in Persian, including London Underground (winner of the 2018 Shamlou Poetry Award) and has translated the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Basil Bunting, Derek Walcott, Allen Ginsberg, C.K. Williams and others into Persian. Translations of his poetry have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. A selection of his poetry in English translation titled The Kindly Interrogator was published by Shearsman in 2021.
Stephanie Anderson is the author of three books of poetry, most recently If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press), and several chapbooks. Her creative and critical work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in La Vague, Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Rain Taxi, The Sink Review, and elsewhere. She is assistant professor of American Literature at Duke Kunshan University in China. Her most recent publication is: “‘The Spaces Between’: Bernadette Mayer’s Self-Archiving in Memory,” in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 31:2 (2020).
Monica Claire Antonie is the sister of poet Tom Weigel. During the late 70s and early 80s she and Tom frequented poetry readings around New York while Monica snapped photos of the poets and their after parties. Her photos were used in many poetry books including the early magazines such as Tangerine that Tom Weigel published under the name of Andrea Doria Books. Monica worked at The Museum of Modern Art in NY for over 38 years and would often photograph the Museum’s poetry readings for Lita Hornick. Monica is the editor and cover designer of several small press books under the name of Accent Editions and published both her brother’s books as well as poets Harris Schiff, Annabel Lee, Joel Lewis and Pete Spence.
Rowland Bagnall
Taneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press 2022) and Vantage (American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Award 2019). A 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is a Dornsife Fellow at The University of Southern California.
Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier), born in New Orleans, has published books and chapbooks and broadside and single
poems and stories since the late 1970s, among them, REVERSE RAPTURE (Verse Press), YOU GOOD THING (Wave Books),
in the still of the night (Wave Books), TOLSTOY KILLED ANNA KARENINA (Wave Books). She's been writer-in-residence
at U. of Texas Austin, Hollins University, University of Montana, University of Alabama, and University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Lannan Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council have all
supported her writing.
Tia Shearer Bassett is a theatre-maker based in the Washington, DC area. She specializes in silly, connective, joyful and intimate theatre experiences; among other adventures, she performs interactive shows with children in hospitals, and co-produces a Zoom version of Kenneth Koch's "Edward & Christine" that she performs surrounded by objects on her living room floor.
Baltimorean David Beaudouin is a widely published poet and performer. He was the founder of Tropos Press (1976-2001), one of the region’s earliest and most respected alternative literary presses, as well as the literary magazine THE PEARL (1980-2001). Published works include Ten Poems (1973), Gig (1976), Catenae (1989), Ode to Stella (1990), American Night (1992), and Human Nature (1995). Two new collections, After All (Bowerbox Press) and Some Odes and Others (UnCollected Press) will be published in 2024.
Margo Berdeshevsky, born in New York city, often lives and writes in Paris. Her latest collection, “Before The Drought,” is from Glass Lyre Press, (finalist for the National Poetry Series). A new collection, “It Is Still Beautiful To Hear The Heart Beat,” is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry, spring 2022. "Kneel Said the Night (a hybrid book in half-notes)" is forthcoming from Sundress Publications, December 2022. Berdeshevsky is author as well of “Between Soul & Stone,” and “But a Passage in Wilderness,” (Sheep Meadow Press). Her book of illustrated stories, “Beautiful Soon Enough,” received the first Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award for Fiction Collective Two (University of Alabama Press). Other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her works appear in Poetry International, New Letters, Kenyon Review, Plume, The Collagist, Tupelo Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Southern Humanities Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The American Journal of Poetry, Jacar—One, Mānoa, Pirene’s Fountain, Big Other, Dark matter: Women Witnessing, among many others. In Europe and the UK her works have been seen in The Poetry Review, PN Review, The Wolf, Europe, Siècle 21, Confluences Poétiques, Recours au Poème, Levure Littéraire, Under the Radar. She may be found reading from her books in London, Paris, New York City, Los Angeles, Honolulu, at literary festivals, and/or somewhere new in the world. Her “Letters from Paris” have appeared for many years in Poetry International online. Here is one: https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/letter-from-paris-in-march-2019-from-margo-berdeshevsky/.
Anselm Berrigan
Simi Best is an archivist who works with twentieth century and contemporary poetry.
Nina Boutsikaris is a creative writer who is earning an MSLS in Archival Management at Simmons University. She is the author of the memoir I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych, winner of the 2021 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Small Press Distribution Bestseller. Her essays have been published in numerous literary magazines, anthologized in The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Fiction, and twice named Notable Essays by the Best American Essays series. She has taught at The University of Arizona, The New School, Catapult, and Gotham Writers Workshop. As an archivist she is interested in helping to facilitate "archive Interventions" and creative applications of archives. She is the Archivist/Librarian for The Flow Chart Foundation's Ashbery Resource Center.
Lee Ann Brown
Laynie Browne is a poet, novelist, and scholar based at U Penn, where she coordinates the MOOC Modern Poetry. She has written with and about Bernadette Mayer, in particular, including the introduction to the reprint of The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, the epistolary collaboration The Complete Works of Apis Mellifera, and an essay on Mayer's 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' in Al Filreis and Anna Strong Safford's The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (U Penn, 2022). Her honors include a 2014 Pew Fellowship; a National Poetry Series Award for The Scented Fox (2007), selected by Alice Notley; a Contemporary Poetry Series Award for Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (2005); and residencies at The MacDowell Colony. Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Catalan. Ron Silliman described her Daily Sonnets (2007) as 'a stunner and a delight'.
Oliver Brossard
Virginia Bryant is a fifth generation San Franciscan descended from artists. She is a painter presently working in upstate New York. Her first public exhibitions were a suite of painted cloth/quilt wall hangings in 1978 in San Francisco. She has acted as a curator, also working with international masters from 1985 until 2004, writing and lecturing for these projects, in dailies and other publications, including her blogs. Her paintings have shown in over 60 exhibits including museums and universities. She has been granted painting fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the George Sugarman Foundation. Her most recent awards are from the Haven Foundation in 2019 and 2021. She is presently working on painting, writing, advocacy & exhibitions with the working title Mutant Fusions. Her current exhibit In the North, is her third in the Chapel & Cultural Center, Troy New York.
Rosa Campbell is a poetry scholar and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of St Andrews, specialising in the work of twentieth and twenty-first century American women and queer writers. Her primary research and teaching interests include ideas of marginalisation and the “canon,” the relationship between poetry and visual art, and feminist/queer theory. Alongside revising her monograph, The So-Called New York School: A Feminist (Re)Vision in Six Poets, her current research focus is the American poet and playwright V.R. “Bunny” Lang. She is also a poet, the Editor-in-Chief of The Scores (thescores.org.uk) and the author of Pothos (2021), a book-length lyric essay on grief and houseplants.
Will Carroll is an associate tutor at University of Warwick and University of Birmingham, and also acts at the research assistant for the Network for New York School Studies. He recently completed his PhD thesis titled Talk of the Town: small-town narrative in twentieth-century American cultural production, and is also the co-editor of U.S Studies Online, one of the UK's largest PhD and ECR networks and publications for all American Studies scholars. Will has had peer-reviewed articles and reviews published in Comparative American Studies, Journal of American Studies, ASAP/J, among many others. Alongside his studies, he also writes popular critical writing on a freelance basis for leading arts publications and is the co-host of We're Listening, a popular American sitcom-based rewatch podcast that regularly sits inside the top 100 most-downloaded podcasts in its category. He lives near Birmingham.
Mandana Chaffa is founder and editor-in-chief of Nowruz Journal, a periodical of Persian arts and letters and a finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’s Best Magazine/Debut; and an editor-at-large at Chicago Review of Books. She serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, where she is vice president of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and is also president of the board of The Flow Chart Foundation. Born in Tehran, Iran, she lives in New York.
Hal Coase is a second year doctoral candidate at La Sapienza Università di Roma working on lyric, silence, and late modernism. His project includes research on Barbara Guest's interest in European avant-gardisms, and he is currently working on Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery's camp as catachresis. His criticism has been published in PN Review, poetry by Carcanet Press, and plays by Oberon Press.
Rona Cran
Daniela Daniele is an Assistant Professor at University of Udine, Italy where she teaches Anglo-American literature. She also runs an International Seminar on Modern Anglo-American Poetry in Translation. Her recent publications include an Italian critical edition of Bill Berkson and Frank O'Hara's Hymns of St. Bridget (with a DVD by D. Pomilio based on the lecture on O'Hara given by Berkson at the Univ. of Udine in May 2013) and a special issue of the poetry journal _Zeta_ on Frank O'Hara (2019), where she wrote on John Ciardi as a mentor of O'Hara at Harvard. She also interviewed Eileen Myles and translated her beautiful essay on O'Hara's personism (2018).
Jordan Davis was poetry editor of The Nation from 2011 to 2013. His first book is Million Poems Journal, and he is a columnist for The Constant Critic.Here's a page the Academy of American Poets made. His poems have appeared in The Poker, Faucheuse, The Germ, Quid, Baffling Combustions, and Shiny, among other journals. His essays and reviews have appeared at the Poetry Foundation, and in the TLS, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Boston Review, and The Nation. He has spoken on panels at AWP about poetry and criticism online, publishing collectives, and his work with Kenneth Koch. He has also spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, the Poetry Project, The New School, Denison University, the University of Kansas, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Princeton University, Cornell University, Columbia College, and the New York City public schools.
John DeWitt is a poet, researcher, and psychologist living in Marseille. He is author of A Slice of Sardine and I Flounder (Doohicky Imports, 2023), 20 20 Pretzels (Materials, 2020), and The Neckless Spokesperson in the Garden of Earthly Delights (Face Press, 2019), as well as a doctoral dissertation on Clark Coolidge.
Terence Diggory is Emeritus Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. His books include the Encyclopedia of New York School Poets (New York: Facts on File, 2009) and The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets, co-edited with Stephen Paul Miller (Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 2001). His essays on the visual arts of the New York School have appeared in several journals and exhibition catalogues.
Stamatina Dimakopoulou teaches US literature and culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. With a background in comparative literature and publications in transatlantic dialogues across literature and the visual arts, she is currently researching various art forms and poetry from the 1970s to the present day, focussing on vulnerability, sharedness and reciprocity. She is a founding member and co-editor of the peer-reviewed e-journal, Synthesis, an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies. With Anne Reynes-Delobel, she has launched Transitive Modernities, a project linking education and research under the auspices of CIVIS, the European Civic University. Currently collaborating with Athens-based Atopos cvc and the Athens School of Fine Arts in the Tyvek Project (practice-based workshops on James Merrill’s Self-Portrait in Tyvek TM Windbreaker and the New York Spanner (1978-1980), to be followed by an exhibition).
Wojciech Drąg is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław. He is the author of Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis (Routledge, 2020) and a co-editor of The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction (Vernon, 2019). He is particularly interested in the literary and visual work of Joe Brainard, about whom he has written articles for electronic book review, Text Matters and Studia Anglica Posnaniensia.
Marcella Durand is the author of To husband is to tender, Black Square Editions, 2021; The Prospect, Delete Press, 2020; Area, Belladonna*, 2008; and Traffic & Weather, Futurepoem, 2008. She is the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art. Earth's Horizons, her translation of Michèle Métail's book-length poem, Les Horizons du sol, was published by Black Square Editions in 2020.
Patrick Durgin is a poet, critic, publisher, and educator based in Chicago, USA. He co-founded and curated the Festival of Poets Theater in Chicago from 2015-2018. He is the editor of Hannah Weiner’s Open House and has published critical work on Weiner’s work, some of which can be found here.
Kate Farrell studied with Kenneth Koch at Columbia, where they became fast friends and frequent collaborators. Farrell was the co-teacher in Koch’s poetry-writing class for nursing home residents and helped him write I Never Told Anybody, the book based on it. Farrell’s seven books include two coauthored with Koch: Sleeping on the Wing, An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing, a volume widely used in college and high school classrooms, and Talking to the Sun, An Illustrated Anthology of Poetry for Young People. Farrell’s stage adaption of the latter was set to music by jazz composer William Russo. She acted in various productions of Koch’s plays and was his writing assistant for a dozen years. More recently, she curated and introduced a feature on Koch in Poetry, centered on a poem Koch dedicated to her: Farrell has taught imaginative writing at Columbia University and in the NY Poets in the Schools Program, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals. Her latest book is Visiting Night at the Academy of Longing, a volume of poetry.
Cecily Fasham is a PhD student and poet-in-training based at the University of Cambridge. She's currently working on Bernadette Mayer's experiments with lyric and collaborative writing practices. She hasn't published anything to speak of yet.
Keegan Cook Finberg is an Assistant Professor of English and affiliate faculty in Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies and Language, Literacy, & Culture at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is working on a book about the relationship between the category of poetry and the state's facilitation of capitalism in the post-60s U.S. She has published and presented on the poetry of Frank O'Hara and the New York School journal Locus Solus. She is also a poet and the author of the chapbook The Thought of Preservation (Ursus Americanus Press 2019).
Ed Friedman
Joanna Fuhrman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and the author of six books of poetry, including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021), The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press 2015), Pageant (Alice James Books 2009). Her seventh book Data Mind, a collection of darkly comic surreal prose poems about the internet, is forthcoming from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press in 2024. She is a former poetry editor of Ping Pong and Boog City and served as the Monday night coordinator for the poetry readings at the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church from 2001-2003 and the Wednesday night coordinator from 2010-2011. In May and April 2022, she was co-curator of the Segue readings at Artist Space. Her poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies and in many journals including The Believer, The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, Conduit, and Fence. In 2022, she became a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press.
Martin George is a French doctoral candidate at Université de Paris (formerly known as Université Paris-Diderot) and an alum of École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay. His dissertation focuses on John Giorno, through whose work he studies performance poetry, poetic experiments with media and technology, relationships between art and poetry, and the various strands of queer literature in New York from the 1960s onwards. Recent and forthcoming publications include « L’édition de la poésie enregistrée aux États-Unis des années 1950 aux années 1980 : l’exemple de Caedmon Records et de Giorno Poetry Systems », dans LANG Abigail (dir.), Frontières sonores du littéraire, [Carnet de l'axe « Frontières du littéraire » du laboratoire LARCA–UMR 8225], 2021, [en ligne : https://flt.hypotheses.org/803] and « La poésie sans le texte : usage des archives sonores poétiques du New York des années 1970 », dans Des sources à saisir, temporalités et usages de sources à la marge, [Actes du colloque, EPHE/ENC, École nationale des chartes, 23 juin 2021], Paris, Éditions de l’École des chartes, 2022 [À paraître].
Ameek Gilhotra (they/ she) is studying the MA in Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast; their work has appeared in Babel Board Notice Board, Streetcake and Overground Underground.
Brian Glavey is an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Wallflower Avant-Garde. His essays have appeared in American Literature, Criticism, Modernism/Modernity, New Literary History, and PMLA, and he is currently working on a book about the New York School, relatability, and the poetics of oversharing.
Elizabeth Goetz studies the relationships connecting place and community in the writing of the New York School and its offshoots and kindred spirits. She teaches at Hunter College and New York City College of Technology, both of the City University of New York (CUNY). She earned her doctorate from the Graduate Center, CUNY, where her dissertation was entitled “Household Scenes: Politicizing Intimate Spaces in the Poetics of LeRoi Jones, Hettie Jones, David Antin, Bernadette Mayer, and Alice Notley.”
Jane Hertenstein is the author of over 90 published stories both macro and micro: fiction, creative non-fiction, and blurred genre. In addition she has published two MG novels, Beyond Paradise and Cloud of Witnesses, and a non-fiction project, Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady, which garnered national reviews. Jane is the recipient of several major grants from the Illinois Arts Council. Her work has received a Pushcart nomination and been featured in the New York Times. She teaches a workshop on Flash Memoir and can be found blogging at http://memoirouswrite.blogspot.com/.
Matthew Holman
Susannah Hollister is a writer based in central New Jersey. Her work bridges scholarship on postwar poetics with creative writing, pedagogy, and memoir. She has taught at West Point and the University of Texas. With Emily Setina, she co-edited Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation (Yale 2012), and they are now at work on a biography of Kenneth Koch.
Lizzie Homersham is a writer and freelance editor, and a part-time PhD candidate at the University of Westminster (English Literature), where she is researching the work of Bernadette Mayer, with a focus on politics and form. Her thesis title is ‘Everything, Every Day: the “Inclusive” Poetry of Bernadette Mayer’. She has an MA in History of Art (The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2013), and a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (University of Cambridge, 2011). From 2015–2023 she worked as Editorial Assistant, then as Editor at Book Works, an arts organisation publishing experimental books etc. by artists/writers. From 2016–17 she participated as a Critical Studies fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, and presented a symposium paper on empathy and institutional critique. Her arts criticism has been published widely, in Artforum (2018–2022), Art Monthly, Art Papers, The Wire, Another Gaze, and elsewhere. Her poetry can be found in Ludd Gang (2022), Lugubriations (2022), and Montez Press Interjection Calendar 007 (2022). She posts on an irregular basis to https://teleportations.substack.com/.
Patricia Spears Jones
Elisabeth Joyce is a professor in English at Pennsylvania Western University. Her work in poetics includes Cultural Critique and Abstraction: Marianne Moore and the Avant-Garde (Bucknell University Press, 1999) and "The Small Space of a Pause": Susan Howe's Poetry and the Spaces Between (Bucknell University Press, 2010). Her work on the New York School of Poetry includes "A Serpentine Gesture": John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology (University of New Mexico Press, 2022). She also conducts research on online communities.
Katharina Maria Kalinowski is a poet, translator, and eco-scholar. She holds a joint PhD in English & Poetic Practice from the Universities of Cologne, Kent, and Dublin. Her writing and creative-critical research explore ecopoetics, poethics, and (eco)translation and can be found in Ecozon@, Magma, the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and the Irish Poetry Reading Archive. She currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany.
Vincent Katz
Luke Kennard
Frances Lazare is a doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of Southern California (USC). Her research interests are in 20th century American art, with particular focus on the histories of painting and abstraction. Her dissertation, titled “Intimate Abstraction,” examines the network of creative communities and cooperative institutions in Post-WWII New York City. This project turns an eye to the complex and dynamic intimacies between the artists, gallerists, and critics that formed this network and proffers a new configuration of the terms abstraction and figuration through the structure of collaborative work. Co-authored works by painters Nell Blaine, Grace Hartigan and Jane Freilicher with their poetic peers including Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Daisy Aldan form centerpieces of the project. Her doctoral research has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the New York Public Library, and USC’s Visual Studies Research Institute.
Jeffrey Lependorf: Jeffrey Lependorf serves as the Executive Director of The Flow Chart Foundation, an organization that “opens new possibilities by exploring poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of John Ashbery and promotes engagement with his work." He formerly served as Executive Director of both Small Press Distribution and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. He received his doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, where he also taught music history for a number of years. His “Masterpieces of Western Music” audio course can be found on audible.com. A nationally recognized nonprofit arts leader, he remains active as a musician and visual artist, and has received numerous awards and honors.
Eric Lindstrom is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He writes scholarship and teaches in the areas of Romanticism, Modern Poetry, and Poetics. He is currently writing James Schuyler and the Poetics of Attention: Romanticism Inside-Out: a book-length study of James Schuyler that reads Schuyler's distinctive "descriptive" poetics in dialogue with the figures and tropes of Romantic Poetry. A part of that study has been published as “Indication, Ekphrasis, and Things as They Are: Paul Fry with James Schuyler”; special issue of Essays in Romanticism, Ostensive Moments and the Romantic Arts (2023): 73-86.
Mae Losasso completed her PhD, ‘“Something like a liveable space”: Poetry, architecture, and the New York School’, at Royal Holloway University of London in 2020. She has received fellowships from Yale University and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and has convened academic conferences at Royal Holloway and Royal College of Art. Her research has been published in Textual Practice and Paprika! and is forthcoming in The Contemporary Journal and Italian Modern Art. In 2021 she was invited to contribute a chapter to the forthcoming Contrasto book, Imaging Failure: The Abandoned Lives of the Italian South (2021), edited by Steven Seidenberg and Carolyn L. White. Her monograph, Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. She is currently beginning work on a new research project that examines the politics of poetic breath across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and on an exhibition that explores the relationship between the New York School poets and the contemporaneous architecture of New York City.
Mary Maxwell is the author of five volumes of poems, as well as the digital chapbook, Trail (all available at longnookbooks.com). She has written about Edwin Denby for Yale Review and contributed entries on Denby, Rudy Burckhardt and Vincent Katz to Terence Diggory's Encyclopedia of New York School Poets. Her poem “The New York School of Beauty” was featured on the Best American Poetry Blog. An advocate of the great Harry Mathews, to him she dedicated her omnibus collection. The Longnook Overlook. Although she pursued Classics rather than writing at Columbia, as a student she had friends who studied with Kenneth Koch. More significantly, her father's brother was friends with Frank O’Hara at Harvard. Her uncle described suitemate Ted Gorey as “a bit weird, even then,” but Frank was just, as he would say again and again, "very nice.”
Roop Majumdar is a PhD student in Creative Writing at Durham University. His doctoral research, fully funded by a Durham Doctoral Studentship, is divided equally between a literary-critical dissertation and a creative portfolio of poetry. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Poetry Review, The Manchester Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. His thesis, supervised by Dr Paul Batchelor and Dr Sam Riviere, explores the first-generation New York school of poets’ circumspect engagement with Buddhism, and how their poetry may be read as a series of calibrated responses to not only religious ideology but also the secularisation programme that concerned Modernism. For his MA, which was also taken at Durham, Roop wrote his dissertation on John Ashbery’s performance of distraction in his poetry. From 2020 to 2021, Roop was co-convenor of the year-long digital seminar series at Durham, Inventions of the Text, which brought together speakers and attendees from across the UK and US.
Greg Masters: When he arrived in Manhattan’s East Village in the mid-1970s, Greg Masters pounded rock and roll drums in basement dives, “alternative” spaces, CBGB and Irving Plaza and attended readings and workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Along with Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart, he edited the poetry magazine Mag City from 1977-1985. In 1977-78, along with a crew of poet comrades, he produced a cable TV show, Public Access Poetry. From 1980-83, he edited The Poetry Project Newsletter. He has issued nine books of his writing under his Crony Books imprint. A new collection of poems is in the works.
Peter Middleton is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton. His most recent publication is Expanding Authorship: Transformations in American Poetry Since 1950 (University of New Mexico Press, 2021). The book includes a new essay that discusses the New York School, “Imagining a Poetry Community: Frank O’Hara and Robert Duncan”. Other books include Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After (Chicago, 2015), and Distant Reading (Alabama UP, 2005). Recent essays include “Show Your Workings: Other Forms of Labour in Recent Poetry,” In J. L. Walton and E. Luke eds., Poetry and Work (Palgrave 2019); “Poetry on the Moon: Buffalo 1977,” in Sean Pears ed., At Buffalo: The Invention of a New American Poetry, 1962-2016 (Lake Forest College Press); and “‘Iamb / what iamb’: Poetry, Science Fiction, and Neurodiversity,” in Francis Gene-Rowe and Richard Parker eds., Corroding the Now (forthcoming 2021). Currently he is writing a book about the legacy effects of wartime code-breaking on cultural practices and poetics. His interest in the New York School includes questions about the opacity of John Ashbery, the ekphrastic techniques of Barbara Guest, Frank O’Hara’s subtle delineation of non-normative affective imaginaries, and poetics links between the New York School and New York-based language writers.
Will Montgomery: Dr Will Montgomery joined Royal Holloway in 2006 as RCUK research fellow in contemporary poetry and poetics. He is deputy director of the department's Poetics Research Centre and was a co-organizer of that group's POLYply reading and performance series. His book publications include The Poetry of Susan Howe (Palgrave, 2010), two co-edited essay collections: Frank O'Hara Now (co-edited with Robert Hampson, Liverpool UP, 2010), and Writing the Field Recording: Sound, Word Environment (co-edited with Stephen Benson, Edinburgh UP, 2018) and Short Form American Poetry: the Modernist Tradition (Edinburgh UP, 2020).
Molly Murray
Eileen Myles
Elinor Nauen (ElinorNauen.com) was born & raised in South Dakota and currently lives in New York City. Her books include CARS & Other Poems, American Guys, So Late into the Night, Now That I Know Where I’m Going, My Marriage A to Z, and, as editor, Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women writers on cars & the road and Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women writers on baseball. She has been published in many magazines & anthologies. She has been part of the Poetry Project community for 4 decades.
Charles North
Alice Notley
Ella O’Keefe is a poet, researcher and radio-maker living in Melbourne, Australia. Her doctoral thesis on the work on Barbara Guest and Veronica Forrest-Thomson was completed in 2019. She currently works as researcher in RMIT University’s Office of Indigenous Education and Engagement.
Jeremy Over
Maureen Owen
Ron Padgett
Stephanie Papa is a poet, translator, and lecturer living in France. She was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin from 2022-2024. Her poetry and translations have appeared in Blue Mountain Review (forthcoming), The Stinging Fly, Modern Poetry in Translation, Michigan Quarterly Review, World Literature Today, Magma Poetry, the anthologies Diversity Poems and It All Radiates Outwards (Verve Poetry Press), and elsewhere. Her academic articles can be found in NAIS, Green Letters, Women: a cultural review, among others.
Trace Peterson is a poet, editor, and literary scholar. Author of the poetry book Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2019), she is also co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013) and of Arrive of Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax, 2016). Peterson is the founding editor / publisher of EOAGH, a literary journal and small press which has won a National Jewish Book Award and 2 Lambda Literary Awards including the first in Transgender Poetry. Peterson is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at UCONN, Storrs.
Simon Pettet
Tadeusz Pioro teaches American literature at the University of Warsaw. He has published several articles about the New York School poets and a book-length study of Frank O'Hara, Funtime, Endtime: Reading Frank O'Hara (Peter Lang, 2018). He has also translated into Polish John Ashbery's plays and A Nest of Ninnies. Apart from that, he is a poet; a chapbook of his work in English was published by Equipage in 2000.
Matt Proctor is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. Their work has appeared in Peach, Ariadne, Wedgie and more. They are the editor and publisher of easy paradise, a poetry journal out of Manhattan, and the staff videographer at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church. Their reality show, "scenes from a life" airs every Monday night at 11:30pm on Brooklyn Free Speech television.
Matthew Rana (b.1981/US) is an artist and writer living in Stockholm. His writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in Art-Agenda, Camera Austria, and Jacket2, among others, and he is a regular contributor to Kunstkritikk and Frieze. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
Craig Reardon is the archivist and librarian for The Flow Chart Foundation’s Ashbery Resource Center.
David Reckford currently teaches The 20th Century American Novel at Cergy Paris Université as well as both English and Art History courses at l’École du Louvre, l’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Sciences Po Paris, and a course on Henry James at l’Université de Nantes. Among the classes he has designed and taught are « The American Writers in Paris », « The New York School Interdisciplinary», «Towards the Modern», and « The Artist Speaks of Self ». His 1987 master’s thesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was on Jules Verne. His 2019 doctoral dissertation at The University of Paris-Nanterre, was entitled, “Concentric Circles: esthetics and poetics of the New York Poets”; it included realizing a film based on his interview of Alice Notley with photographer/filmmaker Laurent Zylberman. He is also an active painter (showing frequently in France and in the US) and a poet (his poems have been read at the Emily Dickinson House in his hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts and during the 2021 Meeting of the Emily Dickinson International Society).
Stephen Regan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He was Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics at Durham (formerly the Basil Bunting Poetry Centre) for seventeen years. His research is mainly on modern British, Irish and American poetry, including theories of poetic form. He is the author of The Sonnet (OUP, 2019), which contains a chapter on the sonnets of Ted Berrigan and other American poets. With Andrew Motion, he is currently editing the Penguin Book of Elegy.
Eugene Richie is the author of Moiré (Intuflo Editions, 1989), Island Light (Painted Leaf, 1998), and — with Rosanne Wasserman — Place du Carousel (Zilvinas and Daiva Publications, 2001) and Psyche and Amor (Factory Hollow, 2009). His translations include stories by Matilde Daviu and Jaime Manrique’s My Night with Federico García Lorca (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), a Lambda Literary Award finalist. With Wasserman, he has edited John Ashbery’s translations from the French — most recently, Pierre Martory’s The Landscapist, a London Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation and a National Book Critics Circle Award poetry finalist, and Ashbery’s Collected French Translations (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Carcanet Press, 2014). He is a founding editor of the Groundwater Press and director of creative writing in the English Department at Pace University New York City.
Bob Rosenthal (b. 1950) is the author of Straight Around Allen: On the Business of Being Allen Ginsberg, Beatdom Books, 2019, and Cleaning Up New York, republished Little Book Room, 2016. He has also written several books of poetry – Morning Poems, Lies About the Flesh, Rude Awakenings, Viburnum, and Eleven Psalms – as well as a number of plays, co-written with Bob Holman (The Cause of Gravity, The Whore of the Alpines, Bicentennial Suicide, Clear The Range). He was Allen Ginsberg’s Secretary from 1977-1997 and is the Executor of the Allen Ginsberg Estate. He taught at Abraham Joshua Heschel High School between 2006-2016.
Patricia Hope Scanlan was born in 1958 in Ireland and has worked in England since 1983. Winner of the Guinness Prize for Poetry from Seamus Heaney in 1982 (Maynooth), she returned to Ireland in 1988 to organize an all-Ireland Poets Convention in Cork, launching the publishing house Ink Sculptors at this time. Back in England, Scanlan was Literary Editor of Casablanca Magazine, founder & co-editor of Lovely Jobly: International Arts Magazine (1989-1991) run by artists, organizing exhibitions and arts events in London. She founded the magazine SuperReal charting surreal influences in English literature & the arts, & curated a British Surrealism Exhibition (East West Gallery, London). Her collections of poems include Selected Poems (Tuba Press, 1993), Yell ow, Three Dimensional Sin (Ink Sculptors, 1988) working with what she described as ‘Power Texts’; A Picture of Water (1991); Hasting, Hastings
(Our Wonderful Culture, 1990); the collections The Trees are Moving to China and Taking the Sun as a Leaf (2008), I Dreamt of Daniel Boone (1996), and
Fassbinder’s Still Lives (2000) (all published by Joe DiMaggio Press) and Reeling in Slow Motion (Pressed Wafer, Boston, 2002 ). Her most recent collection Nature is the Hardest Thing of All or Not Made in China (2020) was published by Tuba Press. Since the late-90s, Scanlan has worked making Performance Art works, and has relaunched Artery Editions to collaborate with artists & writers. Earthworks (2023), an occasional magazine championing work celebrating our planet, appears under the Artery Editions umbrella.
Salvatore Schiciano (Hudson River Museum) worked for a time at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery where he was exposed to the New York School which has held an interest to this day and expanded to other 20th century American and European poetical movements. Writings by Trevor Winkfield, Doug Crase, Charles North, and Ron Padgett have been important for his growing appreciation and understanding of the NYS. The translated ‘How I Wrote Certain of My Books’ and Harry Mathews ‘The Conversions’ were texts of significance for him.
Harris Schiff
A retired American diplomat with over twenty-five years of service, Simon Schuchat worked in Beijing, Tokyo, Moscow, Hong Kong and other places. His poetry can be found in several rare books, including Svelte (published by Richard Hell when Schuchat was 16), Blue Skies (Some Of Us Press), Light and Shadow(Vehicle Editions), All Shook Up (Fido Productions), and At Baoshan (Coffee House Press), as well as the anthologies None of the Above (edited by Michael Lally) and Up Late (edited by Andrei Codrescu). A native of Washington DC, he attended the University of Chicago and published the journal Buffalo Stamps before moving to New York in 1975. Schuchat was also active in small press publishing; he edited the 432 Review and founded Caveman. In addition to the University of Chicago, he has degrees from Yale, Harvard, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University. He taught at Fudan University in Shanghai, and led workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. His translation of Chinese poet Hai Zi's lyric drama Regicide was published in Hong Kong. Ugly Duckling Presse published his translations of Dmitri Prigov in 2020.
David Shapiro grew up in Deal, NJ, a violin and literary prodigy, in an artistic family. At 15, he met John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, and the movement soon to be known as the New York School, of which he would become a leading poet and exponent. He studied with Koch at Columbia University, and during his freshman year, published January, the first of his 11 books of poetry. Thanks to a Kellett fellowship, he earned an MA from Clare College, Cambridge before returning to Columbia for his PhD. Over the years, he produced numerous works of prose, including monographs on John Ashbery, Jasper Johns, Piet Mondrian and Jim Dine. He taught literature, art history, cinema, and cross-disciplinary courses at Columbia, William Paterson University, and the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. Shapiro died of Parkinson’s Disease on May 4, 2024, at age 77. His new book, You Are The You: Writings and Interviews on Poetry, Art, and the New York School, edited by Kate Farrell, with a foreword by David Lehman, is due out from Mad Hat Press in September 2024.
Chiara Shea is an academic researcher and PhD candidate at King’s College London, specialising in the fields of modern American poetics and spatial theory. Her work focuses on the representation of space and place in the work of the 20th century American poet, John Ashbery. Her academic interests are interdisciplinary in nature, combining aspects of spatial philosophy, architectural history, and literary criticism. She submitted her thesis on Ashbery’s treatment of the built environment in December 2021 and is currently awaiting her viva.
Nick Selby
Melody Serra loves to illustrate, paint, draw, write, and experiment with all sorts of art mediums. Melody’s passion is teaching and empowering others by sharing what she has learned. She helped launch an arts and crafts program at a children's hospital and also taught at San Quentin State Prison. Melody hopes to inspire youth to explore and expand their creativity through web development, writing, and art. Melody's interest in the New York School lies in the notion that there is something lovely and powerful that happens when you build a creative community that you can learn from and where support and encouragement are at the core. Meloday has art or poetry forthcoming in Wine Cellar Press, Honey Literary, Little Thoughts Press, Masks Literary, and Dishsoap Quarterly.
Emily Setina is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is author of the forthcoming The Writer in the Darkroom: Photography and Biography in Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore (Oxford), and her essays have appeared in Genre, MLN, Modernism/modernity, and PMLA. With Susannah Hollister, she co-edited Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation (Yale 2012), and they are now at work on a biography of Kenneth Koch.
Elina Siltanen works and has worked at universities in Finland and Sweden. Her book, Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry: John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman (John Benjamins, 2016), discusses the role of community and communality in Ashbery’s work in the context of the New York School, in comparison with Hejinian’s and Silliman’s Language poetry community. The focus is on how the notion of community is a premise for inviting readers into reciprocal communication. She has also recently published an article on Bernadette Mayer’s Studying Hunger Journals in an edited collection in 2020.
Yasmine Shamma
Mark Silverberg is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of Languages and Letters at Cape Breton University where he specializes in American poetry, visual arts, and artistic collaborations. He holds a PhD from Dalhousie University and is the author of The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde: Between Radical Art and Radical Chic (Ashgate, 2010) and editor of New York School Collaborations: The Color of Vowels (Palgrave/ MacMillan, 2013). He is also the author of a prize-winning collection of ekphrastic poems, Believing the Line: The Jack Siegel Poems (Eric Hoffer Book Award, 2013). He is involved in working on both critical and creative projects related to poetic collaborations.
Sandra Simmonds
Jennifer Soong
Martin Stannard lives in Nottingham, UK. He edited the magazine joe soap’s canoe, which published and championed New York School poets including Ashbery, Koch, Paul Violi, Charles North and Tony Towle in the 80s and 90s. In 1993, through his friendship with Violi, he was instrumental in facilitating an exhibition of Koch’s “Collaborations with Artists” at The Wolsey Art Gallery in Ipswich. The show was curated by Violi who, with Koch, attended and read at its opening; Martin then took the two poets on a short reading tour around the UK (which was great fun). His own poetry and reviews have been published widely since the late 1970s, and he has read in the UK and the USA, most notably at St. Mark’s and the KGB Bar. He taught English Language, Literature and Culture at a university in China from 2005 to 2018, and his associations with New York poets remains to the present day. Details of books etc. can be found at www.martinstannard.com where, incidentally, all the issues of joe soap’s canoe are archived as PDFs – the New York stuff kicks in at Issue 5 . . .
Agnieszka Studzińska’s debut collection, Snow Calling was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award 2010. Her second collection, What Things Are is published by Eyewear Publishing (2014) her most recent collection, Branches of a House is with Shearsman Books (2021). She is currently finishing her PhD in Creative Writing at RHUL, exploring how the image of the house is imagined, experienced, and appropriated in contemporary America poetry. She teaches for the Poetry School among other educational institutions.
Nick Sturm is a Lecturer in English at Georgia State University. His scholarship on the New York School has appeared with The Poetry Foundation, The Brooklyn Rail, ASAP/J, Jacket2, and elsewhere, including recent essays on Jim Brodey, Alice Notley, and Lorenzo Thomas. With Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan, he is co-editor of The Selected Prose of Ted Berrigan, forthcoming from City Lights Publishers (2023), and editor of The Early Works of Alice Notley, 1969-1976, forthcoming from Fonograf Editions (2023). His current book project explores what, as Ted Berrigan says, “such a thing as the New York School” is from 1960 to 1990 by studying the provisional mediums, sites, and institutions in which those poets operated. More information about his scholarly and archival work can be traced at his blog Crystal Set.
Martyna Szot is an MA student of The Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław. She is writing her dissertation about Joe Brainard’s literary works.
Kristen Tapson is an instructor in the Art, Art History & Visual Studies Department at Duke University. Her research focuses on experimental practices in poetry and science. With Stephanie Anderson, she is a co-editor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge (forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press). Her current book project, Enduring Experiments, also focuses on Mayer and Coolidge.
Andrew Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry. He's the author of Adrian Henri: A Critical Biography (Greenwich Exchange, 2019) and a forthcoming monograph on Welsh poet, Peter Finch. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University.
Tony Torn is an actor and director based in New York. His more than 100 stage and screen credits include "Ubu" in Ubu Sings Ubu (also adapted and co-directed), “Paul Swan’ in Paul Swan is Dead and Gone at Torn Page, "Cyclops/Mother" in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus at The Signature Theater, "Rusty Trawler" in Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway, “Falstaff”, “Panderus” and “Caliban” in Oregon Shakespeare Company’s Play On! series of translated Shakespeare plays at Classic Stage Company. He has performed in multiple shows with legendary experimental theater artists Richard Foreman and Reza Abdoh. He recently appeared as “The Toymaster” on NBC’s hit series The Blacklist, “Sister Jim” in the Netflix comedy series Teenage Bounty Hunters, and Larry Hughes in Law and Order SVU. He was a founding director of Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping. He manages Torn Page, a salon space and classroom in Chelsea dedicated to the artistic legacy of his parents, Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. Tony was with the Leading Artist Agency for over a dozen years.
Tony Towle
Lindsay Turner
Ann Vickery is Head of Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University. She is the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (Wesleyan UP, 2000) and Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics of Australian Women’s Poetry (Salt, 2007). She is also co-author of The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (National Library of Australia, 2009) and co-editor of Poetry and the Trace (Puncher and Wattmann, 2013). She was a founding member and editor-in-chief of HOW2. She has published articles and chapters on Barbara Guest, Frank O’Hara, and Bernadette Mayer. She is particularly interested in the role of women in the early New York School and currently working on satire and sensibility in early New York School fiction.
Teresa Villa-Ignacio
Anne Waldman
Bernard Welt
Francis Williams
Nina Zivancevic: poet, essayist, fiction writer, playwright, art critic, translator and contributing editor to NY ARTS magazine from Paris, Serbian-born Nina Zivancevic has published 17 books of poetry. She has also written three books of short stories, two novels and a book of essays on Milosh Crnjanski (her doctoral thesis) published in Paris, New York and Belgrade. The recipient of numerous literary awards, a former assistant and secretary to Allen Ginsberg, she has also edited and participated in numerous anthologies of contemporary world poetry. As an editor and correspondent she has contributed to New York Arts Magazine, Modern Painters, American Book Review, East Village Eye, Republique de lettres. She has lectured at Naropa University, New York University, the Harriman Institute and St.John’s University in the U.S., she has taught English language and literature at La Sorbonne ( Paris I and V) and the History of Avant-garde Theatre at Paris 8 University in France and at different academic institutions in Europe. She has actively worked for theatre and radio: four of her plays were performed and emitted in the U.S. and Great Britain. In New York she had worked with the “Living Theatre” and the members of the “Wooster Group”. She lives and works in Paris.Monica Claire Antonie is the sister of poet Tom Weigel. During the late 70s and early 80s she and Tom frequented poetry readings around New York while Monica snapped photos of the poets and their after parties. Her photos were used in many poetry books including the early magazines such as Tangerine that Tom Weigel published under the name of Andrea Doria Books.
Stephanie Anderson is the author of three books of poetry, most recently If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press), and several chapbooks. Her creative and critical work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in La Vague, Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Rain Taxi, The Sink Review, and elsewhere. She is assistant professor of American Literature at Duke Kunshan University in China. Her most recent publication is: “‘The Spaces Between’: Bernadette Mayer’s Self-Archiving in Memory,” in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 31:2 (2020).
Monica Claire Antonie is the sister of poet Tom Weigel. During the late 70s and early 80s she and Tom frequented poetry readings around New York while Monica snapped photos of the poets and their after parties. Her photos were used in many poetry books including the early magazines such as Tangerine that Tom Weigel published under the name of Andrea Doria Books. Monica worked at The Museum of Modern Art in NY for over 38 years and would often photograph the Museum’s poetry readings for Lita Hornick. Monica is the editor and cover designer of several small press books under the name of Accent Editions and published both her brother’s books as well as poets Harris Schiff, Annabel Lee, Joel Lewis and Pete Spence.
Rowland Bagnall
Taneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press 2022) and Vantage (American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Award 2019). A 2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is a Dornsife Fellow at The University of Southern California.
Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier), born in New Orleans, has published books and chapbooks and broadside and single
poems and stories since the late 1970s, among them, REVERSE RAPTURE (Verse Press), YOU GOOD THING (Wave Books),
in the still of the night (Wave Books), TOLSTOY KILLED ANNA KARENINA (Wave Books). She's been writer-in-residence
at U. of Texas Austin, Hollins University, University of Montana, University of Alabama, and University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Lannan Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council have all
supported her writing.
Tia Shearer Bassett is a theatre-maker based in the Washington, DC area. She specializes in silly, connective, joyful and intimate theatre experiences; among other adventures, she performs interactive shows with children in hospitals, and co-produces a Zoom version of Kenneth Koch's "Edward & Christine" that she performs surrounded by objects on her living room floor.
Baltimorean David Beaudouin is a widely published poet and performer. He was the founder of Tropos Press (1976-2001), one of the region’s earliest and most respected alternative literary presses, as well as the literary magazine THE PEARL (1980-2001). Published works include Ten Poems (1973), Gig (1976), Catenae (1989), Ode to Stella (1990), American Night (1992), and Human Nature (1995). Two new collections, After All (Bowerbox Press) and Some Odes and Others (UnCollected Press) will be published in 2024.
Margo Berdeshevsky, born in New York city, often lives and writes in Paris. Her latest collection, “Before The Drought,” is from Glass Lyre Press, (finalist for the National Poetry Series). A new collection, “It Is Still Beautiful To Hear The Heart Beat,” is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry, spring 2022. "Kneel Said the Night (a hybrid book in half-notes)" is forthcoming from Sundress Publications, December 2022. Berdeshevsky is author as well of “Between Soul & Stone,” and “But a Passage in Wilderness,” (Sheep Meadow Press). Her book of illustrated stories, “Beautiful Soon Enough,” received the first Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award for Fiction Collective Two (University of Alabama Press). Other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her works appear in Poetry International, New Letters, Kenyon Review, Plume, The Collagist, Tupelo Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Southern Humanities Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The American Journal of Poetry, Jacar—One, Mānoa, Pirene’s Fountain, Big Other, Dark matter: Women Witnessing, among many others. In Europe and the UK her works have been seen in The Poetry Review, PN Review, The Wolf, Europe, Siècle 21, Confluences Poétiques, Recours au Poème, Levure Littéraire, Under the Radar. She may be found reading from her books in London, Paris, New York City, Los Angeles, Honolulu, at literary festivals, and/or somewhere new in the world. Her “Letters from Paris” have appeared for many years in Poetry International online. Here is one: https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/letter-from-paris-in-march-2019-from-margo-berdeshevsky/.
Anselm Berrigan
Simi Best is an archivist who works with twentieth century and contemporary poetry.
Nina Boutsikaris is a creative writer who is earning an MSLS in Archival Management at Simmons University. She is the author of the memoir I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych, winner of the 2021 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Small Press Distribution Bestseller. Her essays have been published in numerous literary magazines, anthologized in The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Fiction, and twice named Notable Essays by the Best American Essays series. She has taught at The University of Arizona, The New School, Catapult, and Gotham Writers Workshop. As an archivist she is interested in helping to facilitate "archive Interventions" and creative applications of archives. She is the Archivist/Librarian for The Flow Chart Foundation's Ashbery Resource Center.
Lee Ann Brown
Laynie Browne is a poet, novelist, and scholar based at U Penn, where she coordinates the MOOC Modern Poetry. She has written with and about Bernadette Mayer, in particular, including the introduction to the reprint of The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, the epistolary collaboration The Complete Works of Apis Mellifera, and an essay on Mayer's 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' in Al Filreis and Anna Strong Safford's The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (U Penn, 2022). Her honors include a 2014 Pew Fellowship; a National Poetry Series Award for The Scented Fox (2007), selected by Alice Notley; a Contemporary Poetry Series Award for Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (2005); and residencies at The MacDowell Colony. Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Catalan. Ron Silliman described her Daily Sonnets (2007) as 'a stunner and a delight'.
Oliver Brossard
Virginia Bryant is a fifth generation San Franciscan descended from artists. She is a painter presently working in upstate New York. Her first public exhibitions were a suite of painted cloth/quilt wall hangings in 1978 in San Francisco. She has acted as a curator, also working with international masters from 1985 until 2004, writing and lecturing for these projects, in dailies and other publications, including her blogs. Her paintings have shown in over 60 exhibits including museums and universities. She has been granted painting fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the George Sugarman Foundation. Her most recent awards are from the Haven Foundation in 2019 and 2021. She is presently working on painting, writing, advocacy & exhibitions with the working title Mutant Fusions. Her current exhibit In the North, is her third in the Chapel & Cultural Center, Troy New York.
Rosa Campbell is a poetry scholar and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of St Andrews, specialising in the work of twentieth and twenty-first century American women and queer writers. Her primary research and teaching interests include ideas of marginalisation and the “canon,” the relationship between poetry and visual art, and feminist/queer theory. Alongside revising her monograph, The So-Called New York School: A Feminist (Re)Vision in Six Poets, her current research focus is the American poet and playwright V.R. “Bunny” Lang. She is also a poet, the Editor-in-Chief of The Scores (thescores.org.uk) and the author of Pothos (2021), a book-length lyric essay on grief and houseplants.
Will Carroll is an associate tutor at University of Warwick and University of Birmingham, and also acts at the research assistant for the Network for New York School Studies. He recently completed his PhD thesis titled Talk of the Town: small-town narrative in twentieth-century American cultural production, and is also the co-editor of U.S Studies Online, one of the UK's largest PhD and ECR networks and publications for all American Studies scholars. Will has had peer-reviewed articles and reviews published in Comparative American Studies, Journal of American Studies, ASAP/J, among many others. Alongside his studies, he also writes popular critical writing on a freelance basis for leading arts publications and is the co-host of We're Listening, a popular American sitcom-based rewatch podcast that regularly sits inside the top 100 most-downloaded podcasts in its category. He lives near Birmingham.
Mandana Chaffa is founder and editor-in-chief of Nowruz Journal, a periodical of Persian arts and letters and a finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’s Best Magazine/Debut; and an editor-at-large at Chicago Review of Books. She serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, where she is vice president of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and is also president of the board of The Flow Chart Foundation. Born in Tehran, Iran, she lives in New York.
Hal Coase is a second year doctoral candidate at La Sapienza Università di Roma working on lyric, silence, and late modernism. His project includes research on Barbara Guest's interest in European avant-gardisms, and he is currently working on Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery's camp as catachresis. His criticism has been published in PN Review, poetry by Carcanet Press, and plays by Oberon Press.
Rona Cran
Daniela Daniele is an Assistant Professor at University of Udine, Italy where she teaches Anglo-American literature. She also runs an International Seminar on Modern Anglo-American Poetry in Translation. Her recent publications include an Italian critical edition of Bill Berkson and Frank O'Hara's Hymns of St. Bridget (with a DVD by D. Pomilio based on the lecture on O'Hara given by Berkson at the Univ. of Udine in May 2013) and a special issue of the poetry journal _Zeta_ on Frank O'Hara (2019), where she wrote on John Ciardi as a mentor of O'Hara at Harvard. She also interviewed Eileen Myles and translated her beautiful essay on O'Hara's personism (2018).
Jordan Davis was poetry editor of The Nation from 2011 to 2013. His first book is Million Poems Journal, and he is a columnist for The Constant Critic.Here's a page the Academy of American Poets made. His poems have appeared in The Poker, Faucheuse, The Germ, Quid, Baffling Combustions, and Shiny, among other journals. His essays and reviews have appeared at the Poetry Foundation, and in the TLS, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Boston Review, and The Nation. He has spoken on panels at AWP about poetry and criticism online, publishing collectives, and his work with Kenneth Koch. He has also spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, the Poetry Project, The New School, Denison University, the University of Kansas, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Princeton University, Cornell University, Columbia College, and the New York City public schools.
John DeWitt is a poet, researcher, and psychologist living in Marseille. He is author of A Slice of Sardine and I Flounder (Doohicky Imports, 2023), 20 20 Pretzels (Materials, 2020), and The Neckless Spokesperson in the Garden of Earthly Delights (Face Press, 2019), as well as a doctoral dissertation on Clark Coolidge.
Terence Diggory is Emeritus Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. His books include the Encyclopedia of New York School Poets (New York: Facts on File, 2009) and The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets, co-edited with Stephen Paul Miller (Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 2001). His essays on the visual arts of the New York School have appeared in several journals and exhibition catalogues.
Stamatina Dimakopoulou teaches US literature and culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. With a background in comparative literature and publications in transatlantic dialogues across literature and the visual arts, she is currently researching various art forms and poetry from the 1970s to the present day, focussing on vulnerability, sharedness and reciprocity. She is a founding member and co-editor of the peer-reviewed e-journal, Synthesis, an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies. With Anne Reynes-Delobel, she has launched Transitive Modernities, a project linking education and research under the auspices of CIVIS, the European Civic University. Currently collaborating with Athens-based Atopos cvc and the Athens School of Fine Arts in the Tyvek Project (practice-based workshops on James Merrill’s Self-Portrait in Tyvek TM Windbreaker and the New York Spanner (1978-1980), to be followed by an exhibition).
Wojciech Drąg is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław. He is the author of Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of Crisis (Routledge, 2020) and a co-editor of The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction (Vernon, 2019). He is particularly interested in the literary and visual work of Joe Brainard, about whom he has written articles for electronic book review, Text Matters and Studia Anglica Posnaniensia.
Marcella Durand is the author of To husband is to tender, Black Square Editions, 2021; The Prospect, Delete Press, 2020; Area, Belladonna*, 2008; and Traffic & Weather, Futurepoem, 2008. She is the 2021 recipient of the C.D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art. Earth's Horizons, her translation of Michèle Métail's book-length poem, Les Horizons du sol, was published by Black Square Editions in 2020.
Patrick Durgin is a poet, critic, publisher, and educator based in Chicago, USA. He co-founded and curated the Festival of Poets Theater in Chicago from 2015-2018. He is the editor of Hannah Weiner’s Open House and has published critical work on Weiner’s work, some of which can be found here.
Kate Farrell studied with Kenneth Koch at Columbia, where they became fast friends and frequent collaborators. Farrell was the co-teacher in Koch’s poetry-writing class for nursing home residents and helped him write I Never Told Anybody, the book based on it. Farrell’s seven books include two coauthored with Koch: Sleeping on the Wing, An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing, a volume widely used in college and high school classrooms, and Talking to the Sun, An Illustrated Anthology of Poetry for Young People. Farrell’s stage adaption of the latter was set to music by jazz composer William Russo. She acted in various productions of Koch’s plays and was his writing assistant for a dozen years. More recently, she curated and introduced a feature on Koch in Poetry, centered on a poem Koch dedicated to her: Farrell has taught imaginative writing at Columbia University and in the NY Poets in the Schools Program, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals. Her latest book is Visiting Night at the Academy of Longing, a volume of poetry.
Cecily Fasham is a PhD student and poet-in-training based at the University of Cambridge. She's currently working on Bernadette Mayer's experiments with lyric and collaborative writing practices. She hasn't published anything to speak of yet.
Keegan Cook Finberg is an Assistant Professor of English and affiliate faculty in Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies and Language, Literacy, & Culture at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is working on a book about the relationship between the category of poetry and the state's facilitation of capitalism in the post-60s U.S. She has published and presented on the poetry of Frank O'Hara and the New York School journal Locus Solus. She is also a poet and the author of the chapbook The Thought of Preservation (Ursus Americanus Press 2019).
Ed Friedman
Joanna Fuhrman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and the author of six books of poetry, including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021), The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press 2015), Pageant (Alice James Books 2009). Her seventh book Data Mind, a collection of darkly comic surreal prose poems about the internet, is forthcoming from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press in 2024. She is a former poetry editor of Ping Pong and Boog City and served as the Monday night coordinator for the poetry readings at the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church from 2001-2003 and the Wednesday night coordinator from 2010-2011. In May and April 2022, she was co-curator of the Segue readings at Artist Space. Her poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies and in many journals including The Believer, The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, Conduit, and Fence. In 2022, she became a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press.
Martin George is a French doctoral candidate at Université de Paris (formerly known as Université Paris-Diderot) and an alum of École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay. His dissertation focuses on John Giorno, through whose work he studies performance poetry, poetic experiments with media and technology, relationships between art and poetry, and the various strands of queer literature in New York from the 1960s onwards. Recent and forthcoming publications include « L’édition de la poésie enregistrée aux États-Unis des années 1950 aux années 1980 : l’exemple de Caedmon Records et de Giorno Poetry Systems », dans LANG Abigail (dir.), Frontières sonores du littéraire, [Carnet de l'axe « Frontières du littéraire » du laboratoire LARCA–UMR 8225], 2021, [en ligne : https://flt.hypotheses.org/803] and « La poésie sans le texte : usage des archives sonores poétiques du New York des années 1970 », dans Des sources à saisir, temporalités et usages de sources à la marge, [Actes du colloque, EPHE/ENC, École nationale des chartes, 23 juin 2021], Paris, Éditions de l’École des chartes, 2022 [À paraître].
Ameek Gilhotra (they/ she) is studying the MA in Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast; their work has appeared in Babel Board Notice Board, Streetcake and Overground Underground.
Brian Glavey is an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Wallflower Avant-Garde. His essays have appeared in American Literature, Criticism, Modernism/Modernity, New Literary History, and PMLA, and he is currently working on a book about the New York School, relatability, and the poetics of oversharing.
Elizabeth Goetz studies the relationships connecting place and community in the writing of the New York School and its offshoots and kindred spirits. She teaches at Hunter College and New York City College of Technology, both of the City University of New York (CUNY). She earned her doctorate from the Graduate Center, CUNY, where her dissertation was entitled “Household Scenes: Politicizing Intimate Spaces in the Poetics of LeRoi Jones, Hettie Jones, David Antin, Bernadette Mayer, and Alice Notley.”
Jane Hertenstein is the author of over 90 published stories both macro and micro: fiction, creative non-fiction, and blurred genre. In addition she has published two MG novels, Beyond Paradise and Cloud of Witnesses, and a non-fiction project, Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady, which garnered national reviews. Jane is the recipient of several major grants from the Illinois Arts Council. Her work has received a Pushcart nomination and been featured in the New York Times. She teaches a workshop on Flash Memoir and can be found blogging at http://memoirouswrite.blogspot.com/.
Matthew Holman
Susannah Hollister is a writer based in central New Jersey. Her work bridges scholarship on postwar poetics with creative writing, pedagogy, and memoir. She has taught at West Point and the University of Texas. With Emily Setina, she co-edited Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation (Yale 2012), and they are now at work on a biography of Kenneth Koch.
Lizzie Homersham is a writer and freelance editor, and a part-time PhD candidate at the University of Westminster (English Literature), where she is researching the work of Bernadette Mayer, with a focus on politics and form. Her thesis title is ‘Everything, Every Day: the “Inclusive” Poetry of Bernadette Mayer’. She has an MA in History of Art (The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2013), and a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (University of Cambridge, 2011). From 2015–2023 she worked as Editorial Assistant, then as Editor at Book Works, an arts organisation publishing experimental books etc. by artists/writers. From 2016–17 she participated as a Critical Studies fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, and presented a symposium paper on empathy and institutional critique. Her arts criticism has been published widely, in Artforum (2018–2022), Art Monthly, Art Papers, The Wire, Another Gaze, and elsewhere. Her poetry can be found in Ludd Gang (2022), Lugubriations (2022), and Montez Press Interjection Calendar 007 (2022). She posts on an irregular basis to https://teleportations.substack.com/.
Patricia Spears Jones
Elisabeth Joyce is a professor in English at Pennsylvania Western University. Her work in poetics includes Cultural Critique and Abstraction: Marianne Moore and the Avant-Garde (Bucknell University Press, 1999) and "The Small Space of a Pause": Susan Howe's Poetry and the Spaces Between (Bucknell University Press, 2010). Her work on the New York School of Poetry includes "A Serpentine Gesture": John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology (University of New Mexico Press, 2022). She also conducts research on online communities.
Katharina Maria Kalinowski is a poet, translator, and eco-scholar. She holds a joint PhD in English & Poetic Practice from the Universities of Cologne, Kent, and Dublin. Her writing and creative-critical research explore ecopoetics, poethics, and (eco)translation and can be found in Ecozon@, Magma, the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and the Irish Poetry Reading Archive. She currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Düsseldorf in Germany.
Vincent Katz
Luke Kennard
Frances Lazare is a doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of Southern California (USC). Her research interests are in 20th century American art, with particular focus on the histories of painting and abstraction. Her dissertation, titled “Intimate Abstraction,” examines the network of creative communities and cooperative institutions in Post-WWII New York City. This project turns an eye to the complex and dynamic intimacies between the artists, gallerists, and critics that formed this network and proffers a new configuration of the terms abstraction and figuration through the structure of collaborative work. Co-authored works by painters Nell Blaine, Grace Hartigan and Jane Freilicher with their poetic peers including Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and Daisy Aldan form centerpieces of the project. Her doctoral research has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the New York Public Library, and USC’s Visual Studies Research Institute.
Jeffrey Lependorf: Jeffrey Lependorf serves as the Executive Director of The Flow Chart Foundation, an organization that “opens new possibilities by exploring poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of John Ashbery and promotes engagement with his work." He formerly served as Executive Director of both Small Press Distribution and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. He received his doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, where he also taught music history for a number of years. His “Masterpieces of Western Music” audio course can be found on audible.com. A nationally recognized nonprofit arts leader, he remains active as a musician and visual artist, and has received numerous awards and honors.
Eric Lindstrom is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He writes scholarship and teaches in the areas of Romanticism, Modern Poetry, and Poetics. He is currently writing James Schuyler and the Poetics of Attention: Romanticism Inside-Out: a book-length study of James Schuyler that reads Schuyler's distinctive "descriptive" poetics in dialogue with the figures and tropes of Romantic Poetry. A part of that study has been published as “Indication, Ekphrasis, and Things as They Are: Paul Fry with James Schuyler”; special issue of Essays in Romanticism, Ostensive Moments and the Romantic Arts (2023): 73-86.
Mae Losasso completed her PhD, ‘“Something like a liveable space”: Poetry, architecture, and the New York School’, at Royal Holloway University of London in 2020. She has received fellowships from Yale University and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and has convened academic conferences at Royal Holloway and Royal College of Art. Her research has been published in Textual Practice and Paprika! and is forthcoming in The Contemporary Journal and Italian Modern Art. In 2021 she was invited to contribute a chapter to the forthcoming Contrasto book, Imaging Failure: The Abandoned Lives of the Italian South (2021), edited by Steven Seidenberg and Carolyn L. White. Her monograph, Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. She is currently beginning work on a new research project that examines the politics of poetic breath across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and on an exhibition that explores the relationship between the New York School poets and the contemporaneous architecture of New York City.
Mary Maxwell is the author of five volumes of poems, as well as the digital chapbook, Trail (all available at longnookbooks.com). She has written about Edwin Denby for Yale Review and contributed entries on Denby, Rudy Burckhardt and Vincent Katz to Terence Diggory's Encyclopedia of New York School Poets. Her poem “The New York School of Beauty” was featured on the Best American Poetry Blog. An advocate of the great Harry Mathews, to him she dedicated her omnibus collection. The Longnook Overlook. Although she pursued Classics rather than writing at Columbia, as a student she had friends who studied with Kenneth Koch. More significantly, her father's brother was friends with Frank O’Hara at Harvard. Her uncle described suitemate Ted Gorey as “a bit weird, even then,” but Frank was just, as he would say again and again, "very nice.”
Roop Majumdar is a PhD student in Creative Writing at Durham University. His doctoral research, fully funded by a Durham Doctoral Studentship, is divided equally between a literary-critical dissertation and a creative portfolio of poetry. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Poetry Review, The Manchester Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. His thesis, supervised by Dr Paul Batchelor and Dr Sam Riviere, explores the first-generation New York school of poets’ circumspect engagement with Buddhism, and how their poetry may be read as a series of calibrated responses to not only religious ideology but also the secularisation programme that concerned Modernism. For his MA, which was also taken at Durham, Roop wrote his dissertation on John Ashbery’s performance of distraction in his poetry. From 2020 to 2021, Roop was co-convenor of the year-long digital seminar series at Durham, Inventions of the Text, which brought together speakers and attendees from across the UK and US.
Greg Masters: When he arrived in Manhattan’s East Village in the mid-1970s, Greg Masters pounded rock and roll drums in basement dives, “alternative” spaces, CBGB and Irving Plaza and attended readings and workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Along with Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart, he edited the poetry magazine Mag City from 1977-1985. In 1977-78, along with a crew of poet comrades, he produced a cable TV show, Public Access Poetry. From 1980-83, he edited The Poetry Project Newsletter. He has issued nine books of his writing under his Crony Books imprint. A new collection of poems is in the works.
Peter Middleton is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton. His most recent publication is Expanding Authorship: Transformations in American Poetry Since 1950 (University of New Mexico Press, 2021). The book includes a new essay that discusses the New York School, “Imagining a Poetry Community: Frank O’Hara and Robert Duncan”. Other books include Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After (Chicago, 2015), and Distant Reading (Alabama UP, 2005). Recent essays include “Show Your Workings: Other Forms of Labour in Recent Poetry,” In J. L. Walton and E. Luke eds., Poetry and Work (Palgrave 2019); “Poetry on the Moon: Buffalo 1977,” in Sean Pears ed., At Buffalo: The Invention of a New American Poetry, 1962-2016 (Lake Forest College Press); and “‘Iamb / what iamb’: Poetry, Science Fiction, and Neurodiversity,” in Francis Gene-Rowe and Richard Parker eds., Corroding the Now (forthcoming 2021). Currently he is writing a book about the legacy effects of wartime code-breaking on cultural practices and poetics. His interest in the New York School includes questions about the opacity of John Ashbery, the ekphrastic techniques of Barbara Guest, Frank O’Hara’s subtle delineation of non-normative affective imaginaries, and poetics links between the New York School and New York-based language writers.
Will Montgomery: Dr Will Montgomery joined Royal Holloway in 2006 as RCUK research fellow in contemporary poetry and poetics. He is deputy director of the department's Poetics Research Centre and was a co-organizer of that group's POLYply reading and performance series. His book publications include The Poetry of Susan Howe (Palgrave, 2010), two co-edited essay collections: Frank O'Hara Now (co-edited with Robert Hampson, Liverpool UP, 2010), and Writing the Field Recording: Sound, Word Environment (co-edited with Stephen Benson, Edinburgh UP, 2018) and Short Form American Poetry: the Modernist Tradition (Edinburgh UP, 2020).
Molly Murray
Eileen Myles
Elinor Nauen (ElinorNauen.com) was born & raised in South Dakota and currently lives in New York City. Her books include CARS & Other Poems, American Guys, So Late into the Night, Now That I Know Where I’m Going, My Marriage A to Z, and, as editor, Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women writers on cars & the road and Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women writers on baseball. She has been published in many magazines & anthologies. She has been part of the Poetry Project community for 4 decades.
Charles North
Alice Notley
Ella O’Keefe is a poet, researcher and radio-maker living in Melbourne, Australia. Her doctoral thesis on the work on Barbara Guest and Veronica Forrest-Thomson was completed in 2019. She currently works as researcher in RMIT University’s Office of Indigenous Education and Engagement.
Jeremy Over
Maureen Owen
Ron Padgett
Stephanie Papa is a poet, translator, and lecturer living in France. She was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin from 2022-2024. Her poetry and translations have appeared in Blue Mountain Review (forthcoming), The Stinging Fly, Modern Poetry in Translation, Michigan Quarterly Review, World Literature Today, Magma Poetry, the anthologies Diversity Poems and It All Radiates Outwards (Verve Poetry Press), and elsewhere. Her academic articles can be found in NAIS, Green Letters, Women: a cultural review, among others.
Trace Peterson is a poet, editor, and literary scholar. Author of the poetry book Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2019), she is also co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013) and of Arrive of Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax, 2016). Peterson is the founding editor / publisher of EOAGH, a literary journal and small press which has won a National Jewish Book Award and 2 Lambda Literary Awards including the first in Transgender Poetry. Peterson is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at UCONN, Storrs.
Simon Pettet
Tadeusz Pioro teaches American literature at the University of Warsaw. He has published several articles about the New York School poets and a book-length study of Frank O'Hara, Funtime, Endtime: Reading Frank O'Hara (Peter Lang, 2018). He has also translated into Polish John Ashbery's plays and A Nest of Ninnies. Apart from that, he is a poet; a chapbook of his work in English was published by Equipage in 2000.
Matt Proctor is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. Their work has appeared in Peach, Ariadne, Wedgie and more. They are the editor and publisher of easy paradise, a poetry journal out of Manhattan, and the staff videographer at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church. Their reality show, "scenes from a life" airs every Monday night at 11:30pm on Brooklyn Free Speech television.
Matthew Rana (b.1981/US) is an artist and writer living in Stockholm. His writing on contemporary art and poetry has appeared in Art-Agenda, Camera Austria, and Jacket2, among others, and he is a regular contributor to Kunstkritikk and Frieze. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
Craig Reardon is the archivist and librarian for The Flow Chart Foundation’s Ashbery Resource Center.
David Reckford currently teaches The 20th Century American Novel at Cergy Paris Université as well as both English and Art History courses at l’École du Louvre, l’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Sciences Po Paris, and a course on Henry James at l’Université de Nantes. Among the classes he has designed and taught are « The American Writers in Paris », « The New York School Interdisciplinary», «Towards the Modern», and « The Artist Speaks of Self ». His 1987 master’s thesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was on Jules Verne. His 2019 doctoral dissertation at The University of Paris-Nanterre, was entitled, “Concentric Circles: esthetics and poetics of the New York Poets”; it included realizing a film based on his interview of Alice Notley with photographer/filmmaker Laurent Zylberman. He is also an active painter (showing frequently in France and in the US) and a poet (his poems have been read at the Emily Dickinson House in his hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts and during the 2021 Meeting of the Emily Dickinson International Society).
Stephen Regan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He was Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics at Durham (formerly the Basil Bunting Poetry Centre) for seventeen years. His research is mainly on modern British, Irish and American poetry, including theories of poetic form. He is the author of The Sonnet (OUP, 2019), which contains a chapter on the sonnets of Ted Berrigan and other American poets. With Andrew Motion, he is currently editing the Penguin Book of Elegy.
Eugene Richie is the author of Moiré (Intuflo Editions, 1989), Island Light (Painted Leaf, 1998), and — with Rosanne Wasserman — Place du Carousel (Zilvinas and Daiva Publications, 2001) and Psyche and Amor (Factory Hollow, 2009). His translations include stories by Matilde Daviu and Jaime Manrique’s My Night with Federico García Lorca (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), a Lambda Literary Award finalist. With Wasserman, he has edited John Ashbery’s translations from the French — most recently, Pierre Martory’s The Landscapist, a London Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation and a National Book Critics Circle Award poetry finalist, and Ashbery’s Collected French Translations (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Carcanet Press, 2014). He is a founding editor of the Groundwater Press and director of creative writing in the English Department at Pace University New York City.
Bob Rosenthal (b. 1950) is the author of Straight Around Allen: On the Business of Being Allen Ginsberg, Beatdom Books, 2019, and Cleaning Up New York, republished Little Book Room, 2016. He has also written several books of poetry – Morning Poems, Lies About the Flesh, Rude Awakenings, Viburnum, and Eleven Psalms – as well as a number of plays, co-written with Bob Holman (The Cause of Gravity, The Whore of the Alpines, Bicentennial Suicide, Clear The Range). He was Allen Ginsberg’s Secretary from 1977-1997 and is the Executor of the Allen Ginsberg Estate. He taught at Abraham Joshua Heschel High School between 2006-2016.
Patricia Hope Scanlan was born in 1958 in Ireland and has worked in England since 1983. Winner of the Guinness Prize for Poetry from Seamus Heaney in 1982 (Maynooth), she returned to Ireland in 1988 to organize an all-Ireland Poets Convention in Cork, launching the publishing house Ink Sculptors at this time. Back in England, Scanlan was Literary Editor of Casablanca Magazine, founder & co-editor of Lovely Jobly: International Arts Magazine (1989-1991) run by artists, organizing exhibitions and arts events in London. She founded the magazine SuperReal charting surreal influences in English literature & the arts, & curated a British Surrealism Exhibition (East West Gallery, London). Her collections of poems include Selected Poems (Tuba Press, 1993), Yell ow, Three Dimensional Sin (Ink Sculptors, 1988) working with what she described as ‘Power Texts’; A Picture of Water (1991); Hasting, Hastings
(Our Wonderful Culture, 1990); the collections The Trees are Moving to China and Taking the Sun as a Leaf (2008), I Dreamt of Daniel Boone (1996), and
Fassbinder’s Still Lives (2000) (all published by Joe DiMaggio Press) and Reeling in Slow Motion (Pressed Wafer, Boston, 2002 ). Her most recent collection Nature is the Hardest Thing of All or Not Made in China (2020) was published by Tuba Press. Since the late-90s, Scanlan has worked making Performance Art works, and has relaunched Artery Editions to collaborate with artists & writers. Earthworks (2023), an occasional magazine championing work celebrating our planet, appears under the Artery Editions umbrella.
Salvatore Schiciano (Hudson River Museum) worked for a time at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery where he was exposed to the New York School which has held an interest to this day and expanded to other 20th century American and European poetical movements. Writings by Trevor Winkfield, Doug Crase, Charles North, and Ron Padgett have been important for his growing appreciation and understanding of the NYS. The translated ‘How I Wrote Certain of My Books’ and Harry Mathews ‘The Conversions’ were texts of significance for him.
Harris Schiff
A retired American diplomat with over twenty-five years of service, Simon Schuchat worked in Beijing, Tokyo, Moscow, Hong Kong and other places. His poetry can be found in several rare books, including Svelte (published by Richard Hell when Schuchat was 16), Blue Skies (Some Of Us Press), Light and Shadow(Vehicle Editions), All Shook Up (Fido Productions), and At Baoshan (Coffee House Press), as well as the anthologies None of the Above (edited by Michael Lally) and Up Late (edited by Andrei Codrescu). A native of Washington DC, he attended the University of Chicago and published the journal Buffalo Stamps before moving to New York in 1975. Schuchat was also active in small press publishing; he edited the 432 Review and founded Caveman. In addition to the University of Chicago, he has degrees from Yale, Harvard, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University. He taught at Fudan University in Shanghai, and led workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. His translation of Chinese poet Hai Zi's lyric drama Regicide was published in Hong Kong. Ugly Duckling Presse published his translations of Dmitri Prigov in 2020.
David Shapiro grew up in Deal, NJ, a violin and literary prodigy, in an artistic family. At 15, he met John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, and the movement soon to be known as the New York School, of which he would become a leading poet and exponent. He studied with Koch at Columbia University, and during his freshman year, published January, the first of his 11 books of poetry. Thanks to a Kellett fellowship, he earned an MA from Clare College, Cambridge before returning to Columbia for his PhD. Over the years, he produced numerous works of prose, including monographs on John Ashbery, Jasper Johns, Piet Mondrian and Jim Dine. He taught literature, art history, cinema, and cross-disciplinary courses at Columbia, William Paterson University, and the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. Shapiro died of Parkinson’s Disease on May 4, 2024, at age 77. His new book, You Are The You: Writings and Interviews on Poetry, Art, and the New York School, edited by Kate Farrell, with a foreword by David Lehman, is due out from Mad Hat Press in September 2024.
Chiara Shea is an academic researcher and PhD candidate at King’s College London, specialising in the fields of modern American poetics and spatial theory. Her work focuses on the representation of space and place in the work of the 20th century American poet, John Ashbery. Her academic interests are interdisciplinary in nature, combining aspects of spatial philosophy, architectural history, and literary criticism. She submitted her thesis on Ashbery’s treatment of the built environment in December 2021 and is currently awaiting her viva.
Nick Selby
Melody Serra loves to illustrate, paint, draw, write, and experiment with all sorts of art mediums. Melody’s passion is teaching and empowering others by sharing what she has learned. She helped launch an arts and crafts program at a children's hospital and also taught at San Quentin State Prison. Melody hopes to inspire youth to explore and expand their creativity through web development, writing, and art. Melody's interest in the New York School lies in the notion that there is something lovely and powerful that happens when you build a creative community that you can learn from and where support and encouragement are at the core. Meloday has art or poetry forthcoming in Wine Cellar Press, Honey Literary, Little Thoughts Press, Masks Literary, and Dishsoap Quarterly.
Emily Setina is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is author of the forthcoming The Writer in the Darkroom: Photography and Biography in Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore (Oxford), and her essays have appeared in Genre, MLN, Modernism/modernity, and PMLA. With Susannah Hollister, she co-edited Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation (Yale 2012), and they are now at work on a biography of Kenneth Koch.
Elina Siltanen works and has worked at universities in Finland and Sweden. Her book, Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry: John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman (John Benjamins, 2016), discusses the role of community and communality in Ashbery’s work in the context of the New York School, in comparison with Hejinian’s and Silliman’s Language poetry community. The focus is on how the notion of community is a premise for inviting readers into reciprocal communication. She has also recently published an article on Bernadette Mayer’s Studying Hunger Journals in an edited collection in 2020.
Yasmine Shamma
Mark Silverberg is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of Languages and Letters at Cape Breton University where he specializes in American poetry, visual arts, and artistic collaborations. He holds a PhD from Dalhousie University and is the author of The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde: Between Radical Art and Radical Chic (Ashgate, 2010) and editor of New York School Collaborations: The Color of Vowels (Palgrave/ MacMillan, 2013). He is also the author of a prize-winning collection of ekphrastic poems, Believing the Line: The Jack Siegel Poems (Eric Hoffer Book Award, 2013). He is involved in working on both critical and creative projects related to poetic collaborations.
Sandra Simmonds
Jennifer Soong
Martin Stannard lives in Nottingham, UK. He edited the magazine joe soap’s canoe, which published and championed New York School poets including Ashbery, Koch, Paul Violi, Charles North and Tony Towle in the 80s and 90s. In 1993, through his friendship with Violi, he was instrumental in facilitating an exhibition of Koch’s “Collaborations with Artists” at The Wolsey Art Gallery in Ipswich. The show was curated by Violi who, with Koch, attended and read at its opening; Martin then took the two poets on a short reading tour around the UK (which was great fun). His own poetry and reviews have been published widely since the late 1970s, and he has read in the UK and the USA, most notably at St. Mark’s and the KGB Bar. He taught English Language, Literature and Culture at a university in China from 2005 to 2018, and his associations with New York poets remains to the present day. Details of books etc. can be found at www.martinstannard.com where, incidentally, all the issues of joe soap’s canoe are archived as PDFs – the New York stuff kicks in at Issue 5 . . .
Agnieszka Studzińska’s debut collection, Snow Calling was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award 2010. Her second collection, What Things Are is published by Eyewear Publishing (2014) her most recent collection, Branches of a House is with Shearsman Books (2021). She is currently finishing her PhD in Creative Writing at RHUL, exploring how the image of the house is imagined, experienced, and appropriated in contemporary America poetry. She teaches for the Poetry School among other educational institutions.
Nick Sturm is a Lecturer in English at Georgia State University. His scholarship on the New York School has appeared with The Poetry Foundation, The Brooklyn Rail, ASAP/J, Jacket2, and elsewhere, including recent essays on Jim Brodey, Alice Notley, and Lorenzo Thomas. With Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan, he is co-editor of The Selected Prose of Ted Berrigan, forthcoming from City Lights Publishers (2023), and editor of The Early Works of Alice Notley, 1969-1976, forthcoming from Fonograf Editions (2023). His current book project explores what, as Ted Berrigan says, “such a thing as the New York School” is from 1960 to 1990 by studying the provisional mediums, sites, and institutions in which those poets operated. More information about his scholarly and archival work can be traced at his blog Crystal Set.
Martyna Szot is an MA student of The Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław. She is writing her dissertation about Joe Brainard’s literary works.
Kristen Tapson is an instructor in the Art, Art History & Visual Studies Department at Duke University. Her research focuses on experimental practices in poetry and science. With Stephanie Anderson, she is a co-editor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge (forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press). Her current book project, Enduring Experiments, also focuses on Mayer and Coolidge.
Andrew Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry. He's the author of Adrian Henri: A Critical Biography (Greenwich Exchange, 2019) and a forthcoming monograph on Welsh poet, Peter Finch. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University.
Tony Torn is an actor and director based in New York. His more than 100 stage and screen credits include "Ubu" in Ubu Sings Ubu (also adapted and co-directed), “Paul Swan’ in Paul Swan is Dead and Gone at Torn Page, "Cyclops/Mother" in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus at The Signature Theater, "Rusty Trawler" in Breakfast at Tiffany's on Broadway, “Falstaff”, “Panderus” and “Caliban” in Oregon Shakespeare Company’s Play On! series of translated Shakespeare plays at Classic Stage Company. He has performed in multiple shows with legendary experimental theater artists Richard Foreman and Reza Abdoh. He recently appeared as “The Toymaster” on NBC’s hit series The Blacklist, “Sister Jim” in the Netflix comedy series Teenage Bounty Hunters, and Larry Hughes in Law and Order SVU. He was a founding director of Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping. He manages Torn Page, a salon space and classroom in Chelsea dedicated to the artistic legacy of his parents, Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. Tony was with the Leading Artist Agency for over a dozen years.
Tony Towle
Lindsay Turner
Ann Vickery is Head of Writing, Literature and Culture at Deakin University. She is the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (Wesleyan UP, 2000) and Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics of Australian Women’s Poetry (Salt, 2007). She is also co-author of The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (National Library of Australia, 2009) and co-editor of Poetry and the Trace (Puncher and Wattmann, 2013). She was a founding member and editor-in-chief of HOW2. She has published articles and chapters on Barbara Guest, Frank O’Hara, and Bernadette Mayer. She is particularly interested in the role of women in the early New York School and currently working on satire and sensibility in early New York School fiction.
Teresa Villa-Ignacio
Anne Waldman
Bernard Welt
Francis Williams
Nina Zivancevic: poet, essayist, fiction writer, playwright, art critic, translator and contributing editor to NY ARTS magazine from Paris, Serbian-born Nina Zivancevic has published 17 books of poetry. She has also written three books of short stories, two novels and a book of essays on Milosh Crnjanski (her doctoral thesis) published in Paris, New York and Belgrade. The recipient of numerous literary awards, a former assistant and secretary to Allen Ginsberg, she has also edited and participated in numerous anthologies of contemporary world poetry. As an editor and correspondent she has contributed to New York Arts Magazine, Modern Painters, American Book Review, East Village Eye, Republique de lettres. She has lectured at Naropa University, New York University, the Harriman Institute and St.John’s University in the U.S., she has taught English language and literature at La Sorbonne ( Paris I and V) and the History of Avant-garde Theatre at Paris 8 University in France and at different academic institutions in Europe. She has actively worked for theatre and radio: four of her plays were performed and emitted in the U.S. and Great Britain. In New York she had worked with the “Living Theatre” and the members of the “Wooster Group”. She lives and works in Paris.Monica Claire Antonie is the sister of poet Tom Weigel. During the late 70s and early 80s she and Tom frequented poetry readings around New York while Monica snapped photos of the poets and their after parties. Her photos were used in many poetry books including the early magazines such as Tangerine that Tom Weigel published under the name of Andrea Doria Books.