Poets & Writers
Published on Poets & Writers (https://www.pw.org)

Home > Remembering John Ashbery

Remembering John Ashbery

Remembering John Ashbery, acclaimed writer who pulled poetry ‘from the air’

“Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It’s sort of the way dreams come to us…” In this PBS NewsHour video, Jeffrey Brown revisits a conversation with John Ashbery from 2007 in which he speaks about his life as a poet and reads from his collection Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems (Ecco, 2007). Ashbery died on September 3, 2017 at the age of ninety.

Tags: 
John Ashbery
PBS NewsHour
Jeffrey Brown
Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems
Ecco
2007
in memoriam

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/content/remembering_john_ashbery