ChatGPT’s twenty-line poemsChatGPT has difficulty distinguishing “in the style of” from a hazy idea of subject matter. And ChatGPT assumes that almost all poets write in quatrains of iambic tetrameter, with clumsy rhymes and inspirational messages.#poetry#technology#JohnAshbery#EmilyDickinson#FrankO'Hara#GertrudeStein#WallaceStevens#WilliamCarlosWilliams#AI·mleddy.blogspot.com·Feb 8, 2023ChatGPT’s twenty-line poems
“Mother, I’m a poet!”A detail from Douglas Crase’s remembrance of John Ashbery, friend and fellow poet.#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Nov 1, 2020“Mother, I’m a poet!”
“There was this thing”For a moment in a poem, W.G. Sebald turning into John Ashbery.#JohnAshbery#poetry#Sebald·mleddy.blogspot.com·Sep 30, 2020“There was this thing”
A poem with John Ashbery and Stanley Lombardo in itIn the latest New Yorker , a prose poem by Anne Carson: “Short Talk on Homer and John Ashbery.” And Stanley Lombardo is in there too.#JohnAshbery#Homer#poetry#StanleyLombardo·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 21, 2018A poem with John Ashbery and Stanley Lombardo in it
John Ashbery’s last poem“Climate Correction.”#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 13, 2018John Ashbery’s last poem
Heavens, gosh, shucksFrom a 2011 Time interview with John Ashbery.#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 18, 2017Heavens, gosh, shucks
John Ashbery (1927–2017)Not only one of the great poets of our time: he was a sweet, kind, generous man.#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Sep 8, 2017John Ashbery (1927–2017)
From an old notebookJohn Ashbery and Kenneth Koch, discussing Ashbery’s poem “Europe.”#JohnAshbery#KennethKoch#poetry#notebooks·mleddy.blogspot.com·Oct 10, 2016From an old notebook
John Ashbery on “it”“I’m sort of notorious for my use of the pronoun ‘it’ without explaining what it means, which somehow never seemed a problem to me.”#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 6, 2016John Ashbery on “it”
Form and contentJoseph Joubert, John Ashbery.#JohnAshbery#Joubert#poetry#writing·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 1, 2016Form and content
Word of the day: centoThe cento is dear to readers of modern and postmodern poetry.#JohnAshbery#poetry#words·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 14, 2015Word of the day: cento
Stellification, for the fewLines from John Ashbery.#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Sep 23, 2014Stellification, for the few
Ashbery at criticism“The ambiguities are multifarious.”#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Oct 8, 2013Ashbery at criticism
John Ashbery’s “The Skaters” onlineNow online at Text/works: a “critical and genetic digital edition” of John Ashbery’s poem “The Skaters”: text, drafts, annotations, index.#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 25, 2013John Ashbery’s “The Skaters” online
John Ashbery on changeJohn Keats and Wallace Stevens lurk in broad daylight in some lines from Ashbery.#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 22, 2013John Ashbery on change
A multiple-choice questionIf education must be reduced to standardized tests, we should ask John Ashbery to write the questions.#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 4, 2013A multiple-choice question
January 31, 1971 (?)John Ashbery on “the dictatorship of the months and years”#JohnAshbery#poetry#time·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jan 31, 2012January 31, 1971 (?)
John Ashbery in TimeA short interview.#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 4, 2011John Ashbery in Time
John AshberysJohn Ashbery sits next a Fairfield Porter painting he sat for.#art#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 3, 2011John Ashberys
John Ashbery not awarded Nobel PrizeThat'd be my headline.#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Oct 9, 2009John Ashbery not awarded Nobel Prize
Ducks amuckOn the use of kazoo-like instruments to promote amphibious-vehicle tours in San Francisco, with references to Merrie Melodies and John Ashbery.#culture#cartoons#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jun 8, 2009Ducks amuck
John Ashbery at 81"I guess I'm just an 80-year-old adolescent. Or 81."#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Apr 27, 2009John Ashbery at 81
Ashbery Ashberies"Ashbery" as a verb#JohnAshbery#poetry#words·mleddy.blogspot.com·Nov 12, 2008Ashbery Ashberies
John Ashbery, "Informercial 2"An Election Day poem#JohnAshbery#poetry·mleddy.blogspot.com·Nov 11, 2008John Ashbery, "Informercial 2"
John Ashbery and mtvUmtvU's first poet laureate#poetry#JohnAshbery·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 27, 2007John Ashbery and mtvU
