John Ashbery

John Ashbery (born July 8, 1927) is one of the most influential and innovative American poets of the 20th century.

Selected collections

• Some Trees
• The Tennis Court Oath
• Rivers and Mountains
• The Double Dream of Spring
• Three Poems
• Vermont Notebook
• Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award)
• Houseboat Days
• As We Know
• Shadow Train
• A Wave (awarded the Lenore Marshall Prize and the Bollingen Prize by Yale University)
• April Galleons
• Flow Chart
• And the Stars Were Shining
• Hotel Lautréamont
• Girls on the Run (a book-length poem inspired by the work of artist Henry Darger)
• Can You Hear, Bird?
• Wakefulness
• Your Name Here
• Chinese Whispers
• Where Shall I Wander

Ashbery also has written art criticism, collected in "Reported Sightings." He has written three plays and, with the late poet James Schuyler, the novel "A Nest of Ninnies." Ashbery's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University were published as "Other Traditions" in 2000. He currently is the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor at Bard College.

Related Topics:
James Schuyler - 2000 - Bard College

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He is the poet laureate of New York state.

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