A poetry reading
by John Ashbery
Contrapuntal verse.
(Introduced by Larissa MacFarquhar.)
John Ashbery has contributed poems to The New Yorker since 1972. A former poet laureate of New York, he has won a Pulitzer Prize, a Bollingen Prize, a Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, and a Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has published more than twenty books of poetry, including “Where Shall I Wander,” which came out last year. He was the subject of a Profile last year by the New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar. As part of the program, Mr. Ashbery will read portions of his long poem “Litany” with Ann Lauterbach, who is the author of seven books of poetry and an essay collection, “The Night Sky.”
4 p.m. Florence Gould Hall French Institute Alliance Française
55 East 59th Street
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