Frank O’Hara’s influence continues to pop up in unexpected places, including in a new book called Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens by the essayist, poet, and playwright José Vad...
https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2024/06/26/frank-ohara-and-the-art-of-skateboarding/
This has been a busy time for fans of Alice Notley’s work, with three books appearing just in the past year or so, and many interviews, reviews, articles, and poems popping up all over the plac...
Each installment of the PBS series “Poetry in America,” hosted by scholar Elisa New, gathers a group — typically made up of writers, artists, musicians, politicians, actors, and other publi...
In important, breaking literary news, the men’s magazine GQ (in its UK edition) has declared that “‘Hot guy books’ are the hot new accessory” and has included Frank O’Hara’s 1964 bo...
2023 was an anniversary year for this humble blog, since it has been 10 years since I decided to create a website devoted to the New York School of poets and artists and name it Locus Solus, af...
Next Saturday, October 28, there will be a symposium and poetry reading in New York hosted by the Network for New York School Studies (a recently founded organization I wrote about previously her...
James Schuyler, one of the central poets of the New York School of poetry, was born 100 years ago this November. In honor of his centenary, there will be a wonderful three-day program celebrating...
Happy Bloomsday! Over the past few years, to mark this special day, I’ve had a tradition of reflecting on Joyce’s powerful but little-discussed influence on the poetry of the New York School,...
I’m sure many readers of this blog share my enthusiasm for the work of the brilliant literary critic Parul Sehgal, who moved a couple years ago from being one of the New York Times‘s daily bo...
Almost exactly 10 years ago, I decided to create a website devoted to the New York School of poets and artists and name it Locus Solus, after the legendary little magazine that briefly served as ...