National Book Award Winner John Ashbery reads “The Mauve Notebook”.
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John Ashbery is our T. S. Eliot, our Gertrude Stein. It’s vital that his work be authoritatively available in as many different formats as possible.
Today, we are thrilled to share the news that poet John Ashbery, Winner of the 1976 National Book Award for Poetry and recipient of our Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, will be the featured artist for our 2015 National Book Awards invitations and program book.
One of the most significant literary figures of the past half-century, Ashbery also is celebrated for his writing on art, and first experimented with collage-making as an undergraduate at Harvard College. He published Breezeway, his twenty-sixth volume of poetry, earlier this year and his most recent exhibition is on view at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City until July 31.
Image courtesy of Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
A National Book Award Winner, four-time Finalist and recipient of our Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, John Ashbery has published his latest collection of poems at the age of 88.
A wonderful new honor for our recent National Book Award Winner!
A different kind of work on paper from John Ashbery, 1975 Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry and the National Book Foundation’s 2011 Medalist for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. (Via Paris Review)
In 1952, Marianne Moore became the first woman to win the #NBAward for #Poetry. Moore’s Collected Poems, which also won the Pulitzer Prize, demonstrates her rightful place in the canon of modern poets. On our blog dedicated to the Winners of the #NBAward for #Poetry Lee Felice Pinkas writes that “Moore can create subject matter from anything… No creature is too small, no idea too insignificant for Moore to applaud or discover.” In her acceptance speech at the #NBAwards Ceremony, Moore obliquely acknowledged the skepticism that then greeted modernists’ willingness to break with poetry’s stylistic and formal conventions, saying, “I can see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. Anyone could do what I do, and I am the more grateful that those whose judgment I trust should regard it as poetry.”
In 1974, American poets Philip Levine, Jean Valentine, and David Kalstone served as Judges for the National Book Award for Poetry. That year, the Judges chose two Winners and Levine’s letter– sent to the National Book Foundation– provides the text for the Judges’ citation for one of them.
#NPM15 pop quiz: Who shared the 1974 National Book Award for Poetry with Allen Ginsberg?
Well you’re on one right now: The National Book Foundation is a fantastic resource! Have a look around their website. Poetry Society of America, The Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Foundation, etc. There are many places to find online resources. Poets & Writers, the magazine, is a terrific place to start.
This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
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