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My daughter Casey wrote this review of the new Mountain Goats album! @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social

The Mona Lisa Caper: Picasso, Apollinaire, Géry-Pieret | Montmartre Artists' Studios Why did Picasso and Apollinaire head out into the night with the intention of throwing two antique Iberian sculptures into the Seine? Did Géry-Piéret steal the Mona Lisa?

Favorite detail: Apollinaire's pal and secretary, who had a taste for theft, was leaving a gathering and "is said to have asked Apollinaire’s companion Marie Laurencin if she “needed anything from the Louvre” montmartrefootsteps.com/mona-lisa-th...

Did Guillaume Apollinaire Steal the Mona Lisa? | TheCollector The great 20th century writer Guillaume Apollinaire was once embroiled in an art heist. But did he really steal the Mona Lisa?

One of the best Louvre heist stories -- the time Apollinaire and Picasso were wrongly accused of stealing the Mona Lisa (but were definitely neck-deep in a case of statues being stolen from the museum)
www.thecollector.com/did-guillaum...

COVER STORY | Neko Case Won't Be Tamed Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

On 'Neon Grey Midnight Green,' Neko Case insists that grief sharpens rather than clouds reality, and that connection—human and animal alike—is the antidote to dread.

Matthew Holman's Frank O'Hara & MoMA: an NNYSS book launch! (with John Yau) The Network for New York School Studies presents the online launch of Matthew Holman's 'Frank O'Hara and MoMA' with Matthew and John Yau.

This Thursday, there will be a Zoom talk between Matthew Holman & John Yau about Holman's new book, "Frank O'Hara & MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator," hosted by the Network for New York School Studies @nysnetwork.bsky.social. See here for details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/matthew-ho...

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

defector.com/good-riddanc...

The Wildest Blackberry Poems by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Others Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit.

"Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thanks for this!

I've been told that the screenshot is actually from "Reservation Dogs," which is also directed by Sterlin Harjo, who (like Brainard) is from Oklahoma and is a big Brainard fan.

Too bad Wikipedia calls him “Jim Brainard” and links to a page about a Republican mayor of Carmel, Indiana, who doesn’t, as far as I can tell, make art

I haven't seen it yet, but word has it that the new show "The Lowdown" uses a painting by Joe Brainard (!?) as a plot point, and features a character reading "I Remember"?

Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global

Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

A program for a close reading symposium at Emory University on November 7, 2025, in Room 208 in Convocation Hall, from 8:15 to 5:15, with breakfast, lunch, and panels on studying, teaching, and evaluating close reading, and close reading across the disciplines

If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...

Amazing

read these two pulp novels the last few days, both written under pseudonyms & with amazing poetry connections—“Always Love a Stranger” (1961) by Joe LeSueur as “Roger Davis” & “Vietnam Nurse” (1966) by Fanny Howe as “Della Field”

Opera, illness, gay cosmopolitans, S&M, glorious poems: I wrote about the poet James Schuyler & Nathan Kernan’s excellent new biography. Free post, no paywall. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/there-was-... @fsgbooks.bsky.social

How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility Schuyler once told a friend that “life had been after him with a sledgehammer.” But the poet’s work was sharp and humane, a marvel of twentieth-century literature.

Dan Chiasson has a great review of the new James Schuyler biography by Nathan Kernan in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Happy birthday to John Ashbery, who would’ve turned 98 today. “The past is dust and ashes, and this incommensurably wide way leads to the pragmatic and kinetic future.”

newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/o...

Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan, from Alex Katz’s “Face of the Poet” series, 1978

The poet Frank O'Hara died after a tragic accident on Fire Island, NY, 59 years ago today. Here's the obituary from the NY Times & O'Hara's gravestone. "When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf / to turn away from the sun - it loves it there." newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/t...

Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84

Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

It’s Frankie Cosmos’ Universe and We’re All Living In It Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Kind of crazy to go from introducing my 13-year-old daughter to the music of Frankie Cosmos (name inspired by Frank O'Hara!) to her interviewing Greta Kline and writing this feature a decade later @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social

www.pastemagazine.com/music/franki...

We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/YtQzXpd

Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette) Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 06/11/2025 · 1h 41m

Today, a second conversation about the late Alice Notley. The brilliant poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joined me to talk about grief and life in the underworld in Notley’s extraordinary epic The Descent of Alette. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

The Miracles of James Schuyler Nathan Kernan’s biography of the New York School poet tracks the development of his serene and joyful work alongside the chaos of his life.

Evan Kindley (@evankindley.bsky.social) reviews Nathan Kernan's long-awaited new biography of the great James Schuyler for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Ah - can't wait to listen to this!

Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States") Close Readings · Episode

I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.”

“making life, not explaining anything”

I missed having these conversations.

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Great to see this tribute to Alice Notley (1945-2025) at McNally Jackson Books in NY (SoHo)

Alice Notley, Poet Celebrated for ‘Restless Reinvention,’ Dies at 79

The New York Times's obituary for the great Alice Notley (1945-2025)

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...