Traveling furiously toward you

Hotel Negresco, 2010, collage, 6 ¼ x 5 ½ inches, by John Ashbery
"... Poetry and painting are set in an interlinked relation of the arts, with music, dance, movies, theater, and literature, all feeding new aesthetic questions as they come into being. With these overlapping affinities in mind, we went about assembling 'John Ashbery and the arts' wanting to explore how artists across genres respond creatively to Ashbery’s poetry. Our most exciting revelation was how much everyone here fashioned work by reading himself or herself into Ashbery’s. That is to say, contributors created their pieces through reading their own sensibilities into Ashbery’s, and not the other way around. ..."

Eugene and Johnny Go Boating Rosanne Wasserman, 

Star-crossed Trevor Winkfield

Francis Ponge translated by John Ashbery Francis Ponge

Boiled Dinner Jennifer Moxley

Excerpts from 'The Poet as Art Critic' John Yau

In No Time at All Wanda Coleman

Quiet Moon Harry Mathews

Correspondences Marcella Durand

Three poems by Ed Roberson Ed Roberson

Three looks Sandra Lim

The Late Parade Adam Fitzgerald

Personae, wonder, vetch: 'Crowd Conditions' John Emil Vincent

Farms Mark So

Uptick Emily Skillings

Morning in Runnemede Thomas Devaney

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