Professor and Chair of English @FloridaState; author of "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies," & "Locus Solus: the New York School of Poets" bloghttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mwvvs5ax4s2aIt’s extra eerie and powerful to come across Warhol’s “Orange Disaster #5” at the Guggenheim in the wake of what is happening in Tennessee right now02 Oct 2026 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvvs5ax4s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mwjwynjlbs2uMary Gabriel writes about finally giving Lee Krasner, the wife of Jackson Pollock, her due as a great painter in her own right, in advance of a big, joint Krasner and Pollock show that opens on 10/4 at the Met. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/opinion/krasner-pollock-artist-wife.html27 Sep 2026 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjwynjlbs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mvj3qbqiek2vHere's Frank O'Hara reading a poem he wrote on this date 67 years ago: "September 14, 1959 (Moon)" "an agate breeze pours through the gate of reddish hair there is a summer of silence and inquiry waiting there it is full of wildness and tension" https://newyorkschooclpoets.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/frank-oharas-september-14th-1959-moon/14 Sep 2026 21:50 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvj3qbqiek2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mukq2vdx3k2mMany thanks to Brian for inviting me and my daughter @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social on his great new podcast! We had a blast talking with Brian about our shared musical obsessions, why this classic Onion article hits so close to home, and why this David Berman song means so much to both of us. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukq2vdx3k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mtyiz6cs2c2kHappy birthday to the great poet Guillaume Apollinaire (born on this day in 1880), seen here looking very rockstar avant la lettre in Giorgio de Chirico's "Premonitory Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire" (1914)26 Aug 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyiz6cs2c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mtvttnbqtk2fRyan Ruby on "Frank O'Hara at 100," and questions of style, O'Hara and MoMA, and his great, late long poem "Biotherm" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1822640/infinite-waves25 Aug 2026 12:43 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvttnbqtk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3msen4j4i422cJames Schuyler writing in his diary, 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/from-james-schuylers-diary-august-5-1968-2/05 Aug 2026 23:02 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3msen4j4i422chttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mrkntozgmk2tThe poet Frank O'Hara died 60 years ago today at the age of 40, after a tragic accident on Fire Island, NY. Here's a piece I wrote for the Poetry Foundation to mark the 50th anniversary in 2016, about O'Hara's posthumous legacy: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/90078/39also-a-poet3926 Jul 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrkntozgmk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mrayog47h22zI'm so excited for Brian Glavey's new book, "Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets," to be out in the world! @glavey.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2026 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrayog47h22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mqoszv3swc2uPaying my respects to David Berman (and Jasper Johns) at the Whitney Museum15 Jul 2026 13:24 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqoszv3swc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mjrrmf5vcs27It's neat to see Sianne Ngai chooses the speaker of Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems" as one of "Three Pivotal Characters from American Literature" in this piece in the New York Times (alongside Pynchon's Oedipa Mass and Morrison's Sula). https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/t-magazine/american-main-characters-fiction.html18 Apr 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrrmf5vcs27https://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mbwgujbgbk2s"the curators should have looked elsewhere for a way to understand the role of Surrealism in the American art of the 1960s.John Ashbery...wrote some suggestive words on Surrealism that have been too little noticed"- Barry Schwabsky on Surrealism @ Whitney https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sixties-surreal-whitney/08 Jan 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbwgujbgbk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3mbfa2qeu222w"New Year is nearly here and who, knowing himself, would endanger his desires resolving them in a formula?" -- James Schuyler, "Empathy and New Year" https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/james-schuylers-empathy-and-new-year/01 Jan 2026 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbfa2qeu222whttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3m7njfckbf22aMadelyn Dawson writes about Joe Brainard and "The Complete C Comics" for the Brooklyn Rail -- https://brooklynrail.org/2025/12/art_books/joe-brainards-the-complete-c-comics/10 Dec 2025 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7njfckbf22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3m73sh5hwfs2xPEOPLE OF THE WORLD: RELAX! “People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/people-of-the-world-relax/03 Dec 2025 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3m73sh5hwfs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3m6myakd5722xLucy Sante on Joe Brainard and the Complete C Comics https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/18/a-cartoon-revival-complete-c-comics-brainard/27 Nov 2025 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6myakd5722xhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewepstein.bsky.social/post/3m4zacj73ks2p07 Nov 2025 04:25 +0000at://did:plc:pezvrahvriws3joxj6fdkt6f/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4zacj73ks2p