Hyperallergic: The Connections Between Fiction and Collage in the Works of John Ashbery
- #news
- #headline
Figure timeline
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery was an American poet and art critic.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · American poet (1927–2017) · poet · writer · university teacher · journalist · art critic · translator · also John Ashbery, John Lawrence Ashbery, Jon Asshuberī, Jonas Barry, G'on Ashberi, John Ashberry
Born 28 July 1927 · Died 3 September 2017 · Q29418
44 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
6 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Award
- Award
2018· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: The Childhood Innocence of John Ashbery's Art
- #news
- #headline
2017· 7 entries
The Washington Post: A new collection of John Ashbery’s work and other best poetry for September
- #news
- #headline
SFGate: John Ashbery, a poet of the ineffable who mastered many modes
- #news
- #headline
The New Yorker: John Ashbery in The New Yorker
- #news
- #headline
The New Yorker: John Ashbery Changed the Rules of American Poetry
- #news
- #headline
Yahoo: John Ashbery, celebrated and challenging poet, dies at 90
- #news
- #headline
Died 2017-09-03.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:it
- #multi-edition
2011· 2 entries
Awarded New York Writers Hall of Fame (2011).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Won National Humanities Medal (2011).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
2010· 1 entry
And participated in Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2008· 5 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Yale University (2008).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded America Award in Literature (2008).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
"No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" and "No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
His Collected Poems 1956–1987 was published as part of the Library of America series
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Ashbery was named the first poet laureate of MtvU, a division of MTV broadcast to U
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2007· 2 entries
KCRW: John Ashbery
- #news
- #headline
Became the first living poet to be anthologized by the Library of America
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2001· 1 entry
Awarded Wallace Stevens Award (2001).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1995· 1 entry
Won Robert Frost Medal (1995).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
1993· 1 entry
Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1993).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1992· 2 entries
Awarded Feltrinelli Prize (1992).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1992).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1991· 1 entry
Awarded Horst Bienek Award for Poetry (1991).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1988· 1 entry
His "Bridge Poem" was installed, using metal letters, on the 375-foot-wide Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge in Minneapolis; the poet was selected by the bridge's architect, artist Siah Armajani, and commissioned by the Walker
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1985· 3 entries
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1985).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Bollingen Prize (1985).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for A Wave (1985).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1983· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1982· 1 entry
Awarded Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1982).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1976· 3 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1976).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded National Book Award (1976).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1976).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1975· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1973· 2 entries
Awarded Shelley Memorial Award (1973).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1973).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1968· 1 entry
The composer featured them in the seminal Nude Paper Sermon, released by Nonesuch Records in 1989
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1967· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1967).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
His poem "Europe" was used as the central text in Eric Salzman's Foxes and Hedgehogs as part of the New Image of Sound series at Hunter College, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1958· 1 entry
Was recruited by Jeanne Unger at Grove Press to translate Jean-Jacques Mayoux's Melville par lui-même as Melville (1960)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1956· 1 entry
Awarded Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition (1956).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1953· 1 entry
Myers launched the magazine Semi-Colon, in which New York School poets appeared amid an eclectic mix of authors, such as Auden, James Merrill and Saul Bellow
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-07-28.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth