The painter Fairfield Porter was roughly twenty years older than John Ashbery (1927—2017) and the other writers who comprised the New York School of Poets—Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Frank ...

Whenever a major artistic figure departs, whatever remains of the intellectual press fills up with a genre of reminiscence that might be called “Brief Encounters with Genius.” My memories of the poet ...

MR. ASHBERY WRITES MOST of his poems in one sitting, but even the longer work is associative. He tries to write at least once a week, but it doesn’t always work out. He’ll begin by writing down words ...

When John Ashbery died last year, so many eulogists lined up to proclaim him the greatest American poet since whenever that it was easy to forget just how much fun he could be. He was a poet who in ...

John Ashbery, widely considered one of the greatest American poets of the last century, died in his home in Hudson, New York, on Sunday, just weeks after his ninetieth birthday. Born in Rochester in ...

Although his enigmatic poems confounded literary critics and peers who heaped praise on him, his abstract, modernist style reinvented literature... Updated at 8:20 p.m. ET John Ashbery, a Pulitzer ...

NEW YORK (AP) — John Ashbery, an enigmatic genius of modern poetry whose energy, daring and boundless command of language raised American verse to brilliant and baffling heights, died early Sunday at ...

“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 ...

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 ...

A brilliantly researched study explores the poet’s difficult relationship with his farmer father and his guilt-ridden need to conceal his sexuality The American poet John Ashbery, who turns 90 this ...

IN NEW YORK, THE YOUNG Harvard graduates met the poet James Schuyler and John Myers, co-proprietor of the newly opened Tibor de Nagy gallery. The gallery had already given painters like Jane ...

John Ashbery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for his surrealist, confounding works, has died at age 90. The poet died of natural causes in his Hudson, N.Y., home early Sunday, confirms Farrar, ...