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Found: Two Unpublished Poems by James Schuyler
Once again at Isola di Rifiuti, John Latta has a great post: while “looking for something only tangentially related to [James] Schuyler—a copy of anything indubitably typed on Frank O’Hara’s Museum of Modern Art office typewriter,” Latta discovered two unpublished Schuyler poems: Found: two (seemingly) previously unpublished James Schuyler poems. Or uncollected—neither is included in [.
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John Ashbery & Frank O’Hara on Erje Ayden, the Pulp Writer for the New York School
A truly great feature and the Friday pick at BODY magazine: John Ashbery introduces us to the Turkish writer Erje Ayden, who some of you might know better as the pulp fiction writer behind the New York School. Ayden started out as a... Read Post
A Must-Read! Kent Johnson’s “Scintillose” Poem, “Forgotten American Poets of the 19th Century”
John Latta, at Isola di Rifiuti, more than posts Kent Johnson’s extraordinary poem “Forgotten American Poets of the 19th Century,” “a piece of excavatory goodwill, nigh pious in its delight, scintillose in its wit, partial to its su... Read Post
Looking at The Selected Correspondence of John Wieners and Charles Olson
Isola di Rifiuti is at it again—we just reposted John Latta’s thinking on Denise Riley, George Stanley, and Joanne Kyger—and we’d like to point you today to a post on John Wieners and Charles Olson. Latta is reading the Lost & Found... Read Post