Andrew Epstein
@andrewepstein.bsky.social
Professor and Chair of English @FloridaState; author of "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies," & "Locus Solus: the New York School of Poets" blog
"the curators should have looked elsewhere for a way to understand the role of Surrealism in the American art of the 1960s.John Ashbery...wrote some suggestive words on Surrealism that have been too little noticed"- Barry Schwabsky on Surrealism @ Whitney www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Did We Get the History of Modern American Art Wrong?
The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:50 PM
"the curators should have looked elsewhere for a way to understand the role of Surrealism in the American art of the 1960s.John Ashbery...wrote some suggestive words on Surrealism that have been too little noticed"- Barry Schwabsky on Surrealism @ Whitney www.thenation.com/article/cult...
"New Year is nearly here
and who, knowing himself, would
endanger his desires
resolving them
in a formula?"
-- James Schuyler, "Empathy and New Year"
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and who, knowing himself, would
endanger his desires
resolving them
in a formula?"
-- James Schuyler, "Empathy and New Year"
newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/j...
James Schuyler’s “Empathy and New Year”
Around New Year’s Eve, I often think of James Schuyler’s great and moving poem about the turning of the year, “Empathy and New Year” (which first appeared as the opening poe…
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January 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
"New Year is nearly here
and who, knowing himself, would
endanger his desires
resolving them
in a formula?"
-- James Schuyler, "Empathy and New Year"
newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/j...
and who, knowing himself, would
endanger his desires
resolving them
in a formula?"
-- James Schuyler, "Empathy and New Year"
newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/j...
Madelyn Dawson writes about Joe Brainard and "The Complete C Comics" for the Brooklyn Rail -- brooklynrail.org/2025/12/art_...
Joe Brainard’s The Complete C Comics | The Brooklyn Rail
This collection makes clear how much pleasure Brainard took not only in the form of the comic but in the form of a magazine of comics: the collaborative methodology of passing work between friends, th...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Madelyn Dawson writes about Joe Brainard and "The Complete C Comics" for the Brooklyn Rail -- brooklynrail.org/2025/12/art_...
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD:
RELAX!
“People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...
RELAX!
“People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD:
RELAX!
“People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...
RELAX!
“People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...
Lucy Sante on Joe Brainard and the Complete C Comics
‘A Cartoon Revival’ | Lucy Sante
The illustrated poems, satirical ads, and talking shoes that filled the pages of C Comics.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Lucy Sante on Joe Brainard and the Complete C Comics
My daughter Casey wrote this review of the new Mountain Goats album! @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social
this review of the album we have coming out tomorrow is critical in the very best way -- the author asks good & fair questions about how my lyrics work differently within the more-details environment of a stage-musical conceit, and, v. importantly for me, 1/2
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The Mountain Goats, 'Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan' Album Review
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November 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
My daughter Casey wrote this review of the new Mountain Goats album! @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social
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)
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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?
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October 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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...
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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.
COVER STORY | Neko Case Won't Be Tamed
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September 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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.
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...
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.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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...
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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.
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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...
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...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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...
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...
"Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings,
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"?
September 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...
Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global
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September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...
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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...
September 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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...
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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”
August 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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”
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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
August 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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
Dan Chiasson has a great review of the new James Schuyler biography by Nathan Kernan in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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.
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August 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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.”
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July 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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.”
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newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/o...
Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan, from Alex Katz’s “Face of the Poet” series, 1978
July 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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...
July 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84
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July 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams, Is Dead at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
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
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It’s Frankie Cosmos’ Universe and We’re All Living In It
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July 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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
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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
July 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
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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...
Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette)
Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 06/11/2025 · 1h 41m
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June 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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...