"I don't look on #poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒️ #JohnAshbery, American poet, #DOTD 3 September 2017. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒️ #JohnAshbery, American poet, #DOTD 3 September 2017. #Poetry #Literature
September 2, 2026 at 11:08 PM
"I don't look on #poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒️ #JohnAshbery, American poet, #DOTD 3 September 2017. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒️ #JohnAshbery, American poet, #DOTD 3 September 2017. #Poetry #Literature
December 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"I don't look on #poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
Poets: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒ #JohnAshbery, American poet, was #BOTD 28 July 1927. #Literature
Poets: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒ #JohnAshbery, American poet, was #BOTD 28 July 1927. #Literature
July 27, 2026 at 11:13 PM
"I don't look on #poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
Poets: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒ #JohnAshbery, American poet, was #BOTD 28 July 1927. #Literature
Poets: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒ #JohnAshbery, American poet, was #BOTD 28 July 1927. #Literature
"I don't look on #poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
Poets: allpoetry.com/John-Ashbery]
✒ #JohnAshbery, American poet, was #BOTD 28 July 1927. #Literature
Poets: allpoetry.com/John-Ashbery]
✒ #JohnAshbery, American poet, was #BOTD 28 July 1927. #Literature
July 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"I don't look on #poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
Poets: allpoetry.com/John-Ashbery]
✒ #JohnAshbery, American poet, was #BOTD 28 July 1927. #Literature
Poets: allpoetry.com/John-Ashbery]
✒ #JohnAshbery, American poet, was #BOTD 28 July 1927. #Literature
All you JohnAshbery fans out there should tune in tonight to wmcb.net for DJTY's (@tyholter.bsky.social) tribute show to Ashbery.
August 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
All you JohnAshbery fans out there should tune in tonight to wmcb.net for DJTY's (@tyholter.bsky.social) tribute show to Ashbery.
“Your new poems are terrific.” - John Ashbery to James Bertlino in 1986. From the James Bertolino papers. More at bit.ly/aspace-james... #NationalPoetryMonth #Archives #JohnAshbery #JamesBertolino #poets #PoetryMonth
April 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“Your new poems are terrific.” - John Ashbery to James Bertlino in 1986. From the James Bertolino papers. More at bit.ly/aspace-james... #NationalPoetryMonth #Archives #JohnAshbery #JamesBertolino #poets #PoetryMonth
"I don't look on #poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒️#JohnAshbery, American poet, #DOTD 3 September 2017. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒️#JohnAshbery, American poet, #DOTD 3 September 2017. #Poetry #Literature
September 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"I don't look on #poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒️#JohnAshbery, American poet, #DOTD 3 September 2017. #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a...
✒️#JohnAshbery, American poet, #DOTD 3 September 2017. #Poetry #Literature
December 22, 2024 at 5:13 AM
A brief telling of my long strange trip to return to a creative life.
open.substack.com/pub/andrewka...
#writing
#BrooklynCollege
#TSEliot
#JohnAshbery
#MarkStrand
#SusanFrombergSchaeffer
#RichardPearse
open.substack.com/pub/andrewka...
#writing
#BrooklynCollege
#TSEliot
#JohnAshbery
#MarkStrand
#SusanFrombergSchaeffer
#RichardPearse
THE NEXT CHAPTER – How I Got Here
Creativity is not a straight path.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A brief telling of my long strange trip to return to a creative life.
open.substack.com/pub/andrewka...
#writing
#BrooklynCollege
#TSEliot
#JohnAshbery
#MarkStrand
#SusanFrombergSchaeffer
#RichardPearse
open.substack.com/pub/andrewka...
#writing
#BrooklynCollege
#TSEliot
#JohnAshbery
#MarkStrand
#SusanFrombergSchaeffer
#RichardPearse
October 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
En algún lugar alguien viaja furiosamente hacia ti,
a increíble velocidad, día y noche,
a través de ventiscas y el ardor del desierto,
cruzando torrentes, salva estrechos pasos.
¿Pero sabrá él dónde hallarte,
reconocerte cuando te vea,
darte lo que tiene para ti?
#JohnAshbery
a increíble velocidad, día y noche,
a través de ventiscas y el ardor del desierto,
cruzando torrentes, salva estrechos pasos.
¿Pero sabrá él dónde hallarte,
reconocerte cuando te vea,
darte lo que tiene para ti?
#JohnAshbery
April 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
En algún lugar alguien viaja furiosamente hacia ti,
a increíble velocidad, día y noche,
a través de ventiscas y el ardor del desierto,
cruzando torrentes, salva estrechos pasos.
¿Pero sabrá él dónde hallarte,
reconocerte cuando te vea,
darte lo que tiene para ti?
#JohnAshbery
a increíble velocidad, día y noche,
a través de ventiscas y el ardor del desierto,
cruzando torrentes, salva estrechos pasos.
¿Pero sabrá él dónde hallarte,
reconocerte cuando te vea,
darte lo que tiene para ti?
#JohnAshbery
July 28, 2026 at 4:58 PM
In the spirit of mixing up the Bluesky feed, for the next twenty days I'm going to post one poem a day that has stayed with me. 14/20 #arthurrimbaud #johnashbery #democracy #illuminations
February 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
In the spirit of mixing up the Bluesky feed, for the next twenty days I'm going to post one poem a day that has stayed with me. 14/20 #arthurrimbaud #johnashbery #democracy #illuminations
The secret is too plain. The pity of it smarts,
Makes hot tears spurt: that the soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.
- #JohnAshbery, 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'
Makes hot tears spurt: that the soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.
- #JohnAshbery, 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'
September 13, 2026 at 9:08 PM
The secret is too plain. The pity of it smarts,
Makes hot tears spurt: that the soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.
- #JohnAshbery, 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'
Makes hot tears spurt: that the soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.
- #JohnAshbery, 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror'
Celebrated American poet and teacher John Ashbery, to date the only writer to win the Pulitzer, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award in the same year, was BOTD in 1927. #johnashbery #bornonthisday #supergays
John Ashbery
American poet and critic John Ashbery was BOTD in 1927. Born in Rochester, New York to a middle-class family, he showed early promise as a poet, studying at Harvard University where he befriended w…
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July 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Celebrated American poet and teacher John Ashbery, to date the only writer to win the Pulitzer, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award in the same year, was BOTD in 1927. #johnashbery #bornonthisday #supergays
Just noticed that the (truncated) awning in the back of that photo of a young John A reads "YOU" - how right.
RIP #JohnAshbery #thepoemisyou
RIP #JohnAshbery #thepoemisyou
November 19, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Just noticed that the (truncated) awning in the back of that photo of a young John A reads "YOU" - how right.
RIP #JohnAshbery #thepoemisyou
RIP #JohnAshbery #thepoemisyou
"We see that there really is nothing left to write about."
-John Ashbery, As We Know
#johnashbery #inmemoriam
-John Ashbery, As We Know
#johnashbery #inmemoriam
November 19, 2024 at 7:28 AM
"We see that there really is nothing left to write about."
-John Ashbery, As We Know
#johnashbery #inmemoriam
-John Ashbery, As We Know
#johnashbery #inmemoriam
The latest Il giornale dei libri! http://paper.li/tigella/libri?edition_id=cd294ff0-9199-11e7-8513-0cc47a0d164b Thanks to @jacopo_iacoboni @assaggiletterar @apogeonline #libri #johnashbery
March 22, 2026 at 7:22 PM
The latest Il giornale dei libri! http://paper.li/tigella/libri?edition_id=cd294ff0-9199-11e7-8513-0cc47a0d164b Thanks to @jacopo_iacoboni @assaggiletterar @apogeonline #libri #johnashbery
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes.
[...]
At North Farm | A poem by #JohnAshbery (1984) #poems www.cocosse.com/2016/05/at-n...
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes.
[...]
At North Farm | A poem by #JohnAshbery (1984) #poems www.cocosse.com/2016/05/at-n...
At North Farm | A poem by John Ashbery (1984) - C o c o s s e
At North Farm | A poem by John Ashbery (1984)
www.cocosse.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes.
[...]
At North Farm | A poem by #JohnAshbery (1984) #poems www.cocosse.com/2016/05/at-n...
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes.
[...]
At North Farm | A poem by #JohnAshbery (1984) #poems www.cocosse.com/2016/05/at-n...
Forget billboard advertising. Why doesn't every bridge have a poem on it? http://bit.ly/tvuFAG #johnashbery
Ashbery Bridge
So probably my very favorite place in Minneapolis is a pe...
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December 2, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Forget billboard advertising. Why doesn't every bridge have a poem on it? http://bit.ly/tvuFAG #johnashbery
And the air pours in with piano notes
In its skirts, as though to say, “Look, John,
I’ve brought these and these”—that is,
A few Beethovens, some, Brahmses,
A few choice Poulenc notes. . .
#weatherstormasongorpoem #hashtaggames
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hcDWqYQM
#johnashbery […]
In its skirts, as though to say, “Look, John,
I’ve brought these and these”—that is,
A few Beethovens, some, Brahmses,
A few choice Poulenc notes. . .
#weatherstormasongorpoem #hashtaggames
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hcDWqYQM
#johnashbery […]
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September 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
And the air pours in with piano notes
In its skirts, as though to say, “Look, John,
I’ve brought these and these”—that is,
A few Beethovens, some, Brahmses,
A few choice Poulenc notes. . .
#weatherstormasongorpoem #hashtaggames
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hcDWqYQM
#johnashbery […]
In its skirts, as though to say, “Look, John,
I’ve brought these and these”—that is,
A few Beethovens, some, Brahmses,
A few choice Poulenc notes. . .
#weatherstormasongorpoem #hashtaggames
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9hcDWqYQM
#johnashbery […]
and so all is vapor, and threading
passages through some insufficiently imaged context. #johnashbery
passages through some insufficiently imaged context. #johnashbery
September 14, 2023 at 8:12 AM
and so all is vapor, and threading
passages through some insufficiently imaged context. #johnashbery
passages through some insufficiently imaged context. #johnashbery
newly #ugly, i keep thinking about #johnashbery and the opening of self-portrait in a convex mirror and how it shook me--just look!
"I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free."
i want this beauty always but without capitalization!
"I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free."
i want this beauty always but without capitalization!
June 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
newly #ugly, i keep thinking about #johnashbery and the opening of self-portrait in a convex mirror and how it shook me--just look!
"I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free."
i want this beauty always but without capitalization!
"I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free."
i want this beauty always but without capitalization!