When John Ashbery Was New York’s Art Critic“The show is like a marvelous overdose of spring tonic. After you come out of it, everything and everybody you see looks like a new percussion instrument.”
A Sonnet About Dan Harmon’s Latest Blog PostI have long thought that the ultimate level of success would be to have people write sonnets about your stream-of-consciousness 2:30AM blog […]
Bill Murray Reads Poetry
Bill Murray stopped by the annual Poets House Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge to read a couple of poems by Billy Collins and Cole Porter, […]
Marilyn Monroe: Poet“My love sleeps besides me — / in the faint light — I see his manly jaw.”
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James Franco Selects His Favorite Poems“The O’Hara poems are beautiful and deceiving. On one level they feel frivolous, but O’Hara always ties them up with a significant event or line that pulls everything taut..”
Bono’s Poetry OffendsThis isn’t even the worst part: ‘Elvis white trash / Elvis the Memphis flash / Elvis didn’t smoke hash and woulda been a sissy without Johnny Cash.’