Born in Rochester, New York in 1927, John Ashbery is one of the most highly regarded American poets of the 20th century. He has won nearly every major American literary award; and his work is ...

Karin Roffman's The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life is the first in-depth biography of one of the 20th century's greatest poets. The narrative follows Ashbery, who was born in 1927, up ...

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Considered one of the country’s most influential poets, John Ashbery died Sunday at the age of 90. He was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Jeffrey Brown revisits his ...

MTVu—a college-oriented offshoot of MTV broadcast on 750 campuses nationwide—has announced that John Ashbery will be its inaugural poet laureate. The 80-year-old Ashbery, who is renowned for his dense ...

John Ashbery is almost certainly the last American poet about whom there is anything approaching consensus. His greatness is accepted by both sides of the house—the poets who are sometimes perceived ...

“No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery,” Langdon Hammer wrote in the New York Times in 2008. “Ashbery’s phrases always feel newly minted; his poems ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“I have a natural horror of letting people see how my mind works,” a 23-year-old John Ashbery wrote to the painter Jane Freilicher in 1950. It’s not a surprising sentiment. Ashbery, who will turn 90 ...