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Before a reading at the Guggenheim on January 30, 1973, John Ashbery was interviewed by museum staffer Mimi Poser on the Round and About the Guggenheim radio program. They discussed how poetry relates to art, how Ashbery got started as an art critic, and how he goes about writing a poem. Read more: https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/findings/1973-radio-interview-reading-john-ashbery

Poetry of John Ashbery, 1973

Hannah Tinti is a writer, editor, and teacher.  Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her best-selling novel, The Good Thief, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, winner of the The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award. She is now finishing a new novel.

Hannah has worked at bookstores, magazines, publishing houses, and literary agencies. In 2002 she co-founded the award-winning magazine One Story and for the past 12 years has been its Editor in Chief. In 2009 she received the PEN/Nora Magid award for excellence in editing and in 2014 One Story won the AWP Prize for Best Small Press. In 2011, she joined the Public Radio program, Selected Shorts, as their Literary Commentator, interviewing authors and actors about the importance of literature and reading.

More at www.hannahtinti.com

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First Cuts from First Draft - Hannah Tinti

An interview with Mark Doty, Elizabeth McCracken at the Story Prize; Benjamin Percy sings a song; and more.

Ampersand Episode One: Mark Doty, Elizabeth McCracken, Benjamin Percy

Matthew Rohrer reads five poems from his collection Surrounded By Friends, published in April by Wave Books. 

Surrounded By Friends by Matthew Rohrer

Background and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/11/30/eileen-myles-reads-for-my-rampant-muse-for-her/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/design-matters-with-debbie-millman-eileen-myles

Eileen Myles Reads "For My Rampant Muse, For Her"

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