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 ...

beside one’s path would make sense, perhaps. But it’s not the untrustworthy nature of Gotham weather, or the poet’s skeptical way of appraising what it might bring in its wake, that I want to call ...

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 ...

Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate. Reading those lines of Ashbery’s, or ones written much more recently or even earlier, one would never think to say that his tone has ...

NORTHAMPTON —Smith College will present a reading by distinguished poet John Ashbery at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, in the Weinstein Auditorium at Wright Hall. The reading is free and open to the ...

NEW YORK -- White-haired and round-faced, with a kind smile and a wry, modest air, the award-winning poet stands before hundreds on a cloudy fall night. John Ashbery first appeared at Manhattan's 92nd ...

The haunted, lonely prose-poetry of Pierre Reverdy has attracted many translators. Here, two of America's most extraordinary poets read and discuss their translations, prose-poetry in general, and the ...

One of the most acclaimed poets of the 20th century has died. John Ashbery won every major prize, including a Pulitzer and a National Book Award, along with a so-called MacArthur genius grant for more ...

So often it happens that the time we turn around in soon becomes the shoal our pathetic skiff will run aground in. And just as waves are anchored to the bottom of the sea we must reach the shallows ...

Are you in fact America’s most important living poet? Important? I get talked about a lot. I enjoy writing the way I do, which doesn’t please a lot of people and pleases others enormously, and I guess ...