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John Ashbery Audio, Readings in Contemporary Poetry

Dia:Chelsea, March 10, 2011

This audio was recorded at Dia:Chelsea on March 10, 2011 as part of Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. John Ashbery and Paolo Javier read that evening.

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York in 1927. He earned degrees from Harvard and Columbia University, and went to France as a Fulbright Scholar in 1955, living there for much of the next decade. His many collections of poetry include Planisphere (2009) and Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (2007), which was awarded the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize; an early book, Some Trees, was selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series (1956), and in 2008 the Library of America published the first volume of his collected poems. He has published numerous translations from the French, including works by Pierre Reverdy, Arthur Rimbaud, Raymond Roussel, and several collections of poems by Pierre Martory. Also active in other areas of the arts, including theater and film, he has served as executive editor of ARTnews, and as art critic for New York magazine and Newsweek. He taught for many years at Brooklyn College and Bard College, and in 1989-90 delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1988 to 1999. The winner of many prizes and awards, both nationally and internationally, he has received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was a MacArthur Fellow from 1985 to 1990. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He lives in New York.

To hear Vincent Katz's introduction to John Ashbery, please click here.

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