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Making Your Own DaysIn Making Your Own Days, celebrated poet Kenneth Koch writes about poetry as no one has written about it before -- and as if no one had written about...Read More
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East Hampton Star, May 3, 2012
...amusement. They haunted dark clubs to see the likes of Lenny Bruce and frequented weeknight poetry readings featuring Kenneth Koch and Allen Ginsberg. At the club Bon Soir on Eighth Street, one of their favorites was an awkward 18-year-old with an...
Arts Hub, May 2, 2012
...Australian experimental poet whose work is just mindblowing. In terms of teaching poetry I am quite inspired by Kenneth Koch, who wrote the book ‘Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?’ about running poetry workshops with children. What in the industry do...
Washington Post, April 30, 2012
...by Frank OHara by Philip Larkin by W.H. Auden by E.E. Cummings by Robert Hass: by Kenneth Koch: by Langston Hughes Siren Song by Margaret Atwood Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish Bluebird by Charles Bukowski One Art by Elizabeth Bishop by Don Marquis...
New York Times, April 26, 2012
...a New York school of poetry fan: James Schuyler was my hero, Frank O’Hara and Ashbery and Kenneth Koch. I had read Ginsberg and thought it was really good but I wasn’t aspiring to be in the Beat world. But Allen liked me and he liked that...
Atlantic Monthly, March 8, 2012
...into the halls of academia, closed the doors, and then triple-locked them. Even New York school poets like Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara, who put a premium on wit and humor not that far divorced from someone like Ogden Nash, do so in a way designed to...
Bookslut, March 5, 2012
...first poem you ever wrote? In his analysis of the New York School poets, , David Lehman gives us Kenneth Koch's first poem, written at age five: "I have a little pony, / I ride him up and down; / I ride him in the country, / I ride...
American Spectator, February 27, 2012
...a "plausible" audience of peers. The so-called "New York School" of poets -- John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch -- followed this advice, at least in part. While O'Hara in particular established a community of readers through his use of names and...
American Spectator, February 27, 2012
...a "plausible" audience of peers. The so-called "New York School" of poets -- John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch -- followed this advice, at least in part. While O'Hara in particular established a community of readers through his use of names and...
Lemon Grove Patch, February 22, 2012
...well as his introduction to the inaugural issue of Poetry International can be seen below. “His poem, Elegy for Kenneth Koch, was his last poem published in Poetry International.” Steve Moramarco was featured in a story three months ago about his...
La Mesa Patch, February 22, 2012
...well as his introduction to the inaugural issue of Poetry International can be seen below. “His poem, Elegy for Kenneth Koch, was his last poem published in Poetry International.” Steve Moramarco was featured in a story three months ago about his...
Mount Helix Patch, February 22, 2012
...well as his introduction to the inaugural issue of Poetry International can be seen below. “His poem, Elegy for Kenneth Koch, was his last poem published in Poetry International.” Steve Moramarco was featured in a story three months ago about his...
Macau Daily Times, February 19, 2012
...Bowers was the prize winner, and to $25,000 in 1995. The $25,000 award went to poet, Kenneth Koch. Keep writing those odes, rhymes and stanzas. You may be the next winner of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. And maybe, just maybe, the award will receive...
Oregonian, February 5, 2012
...to stay home and get some rest. Less like Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat Pray Love" and more like Kenneth Koch's short-story collection "Hotel Lambosa," Houston gives us a life in slivers and snapshots from around the globe, as our protagonist flings herself...
The Australian, December 14, 2011
...New York bar. The four main poets of the New York school took different approaches to poetic form. Kenneth Koch's mock epic, Ko, or a Season on Earth, rhymes obsessively, sometimes obscenely and at great length: 3582 lines and 882 rhymes. John Ashbery...
