JOHN ASHBERY’s recent collections include Planisphere, Notes from the Air: Selected

Later Poems, and a Library of America edition of Collected Poems 1956–1987. His second

book, The Tennis Court Oath, was published by Wesleyan in 1962. Widely recognized

as one of America’s greatest poets, Ashbery has received a MacArthur Fellowship,

two Guggenheims, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, and

the International Griffin Poetry Prize. He also is renowned for his art criticism and his

translations from the French. Event organized by Elizabeth Willis