“The “Do It Yourself’ Avant Garde: Teaching Women and the New York School,” Susan Rosenbaum, University of GeorgiaĬreative Responses to the New York School: Four Poetsġ.

“John Ashbery’s ‘Early Lessons’: Editing a Digital Edition of Some Trees,” Karin Roffman, West Pointģ. “The Ashbery Problem and Second-generation Feminism: Meditations on Teaching the New York School,” Ben Lee, University of TennesseeĢ. This time around, the New York School Society has organized the following great-sounding panels - one that features recent critical takes on teaching poets of the New York School and one that brings together four terrific poets inspired by them:ġ. This year’s ALA conference will be held in Washington, DC from tomorrow, May 22, through May 25. I always find it interesting to see what’s on offer, as it seems like a good way to get a sense of current directions in critical discussions of this group of poets. (I mentioned the offerings at last year’s ALA here). You can find the podcast here and more great episodes of the always interesting PoemTalk here (you can also subscribe to the series through the iTunes music store ).Įach year at the American Literature Association’s annual conference, “The New York School Society” hosts a panel or two devoted to recent scholarship on the topic of the New York School. Waldman’s ongoing work as a cultural activist belief by her, and others, in the “magical efficacies of language as a political act” poets’ support for alternative art communities the relationship between the work of curating and institutionally “making” poetry spaces and the poems that arise from such work the feminist project of “thrusting into point of view,” a gesture in equal parts writerly and political and the importance of reasserting myths of the woman rising from below, coming up, coming back, and opening the box. The podcast includes a characteristically electrifying performance of the poem by Waldman herself.Īs Filreis notes, the four participants discuss a variety of topics, including: “To the Censorious Ones” is a furious blast at the late Senator Jesse Helms and at all forces of repression, misogyny, and philistinism. Waldman has long been associated about equally with both the second-generation of the New York School and the Beats, and in some ways represents the fruitful coming together and synergy of those two parallel yet distinct traditions. Filreis is joined by Orchid Tierney, Stacy Szymaszek, and Pierre Joris for a lively and illuminating conversation about Waldman’s poem “ To the Censorious Ones,” which can be found in her collection In the Room of Never Grieve: New and Selected Poems 1985-2003. The latest installment of the terrific podcast series PoemTalk, hosted by Al Filreis, features a discussion of a poem by Anne Waldman.

Restless Ambition by Cathy Curtis