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Academy of American Poets
- Poems by Ashbery
"Daffy Duck in Hollywood"
"Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape"
"For John Clare"
"Into the Dusk-Charged Air"
"Meaningful Love"
"My Philosophy of Life"
(with audio file)
"Syringa"
- Ashbery’s citation for 1995 Wallace Stevens Award winner James Tate
- Bio-bibliographic note and brief critical texts
- Links to related sites
Double Change (PDF): special Ashbery issue of L'oeil de boeuf, in French
- interview with Ashbery by Olivier Brossard, with the full text of Ashbery's poem "Her Cardboard Lover" in English and in French translation by Anne Talvaz
- bio-bibliographical timeline for Ashbery's life
- reminiscence of Ashbery by Harry Mathews
- Ashbery's poem "The New Spirit," translated by Marie-France Azor and Franck André Jamme
- poems written for Ashbery:
by Frank O'Hara, translated by Olivier Brossard
by Pierre Alfieri
by Chris Edgar, translated by Olivier Brossard
by Mark Ford, translated by Omar Berrada
by Pascalle Monnier
by Franck André Jamme
by Frank Smith
- essays by Trevor Winkfield, Mark Ford, Guy Bennett, Antoine Cazé, David Kermani and Nicola Gardini
- numerous images
Jacket: Special Angel Hair issue
- Ashbery's poem "The Hod Carrier"
- Frank O'Hara's poem "To John Ashbery"
Jacket: Special John Ashbery issue
- Ashbery’s poem "The Burden of the Park"
- Marjorie Perloff’s critical essay "Normalizing John Ashbery"
- two interviews with Ashbery and a critical essay on him by John Tranter
- numerous photographs of Ashbery
- several works dedicated to Ashbery by poets including Robert Adamson, David Lehman and John Kinsella
Jacket: Special Hoax issue
- special feature about the fictitious Australian poet Ern Malley includes:
Ashbery’s Malley-esque poems written as a collaborative project with poet
John Kinsella: "Potsdam" and "Aenobarbus"
critical essay by Michael Leddy on the interconnections between Malley,
Henry Darger, Joseph Cornell, Raymond Roussel and Ashbery’s Girls on the Run
John Tranter's parodic movie poster The Ern Malley Story includes spoof roles
for Ashbery as Chatterton and the Three Stooges as the New York School of Poets
Random House / Bold Type
- Ashbery's poem "My Erotic Double," with audio file
- critical essay on Ashbery by Ernest Hilbert
University of Pennsylvania / English 88 / Al Filreis
- poems by Ashbery:
"The Instruction Manual"
"Some Trees"
(with a paraphrase by Steven Robinson)
"What Is Poetry"
"Hard Times"
"'The One Thing That Can Save America'"
"The Grapevine"
"Crossroads in the Past"
(with an audio file of Ashbery reading the poem)
"If You Said You Would Come With Me"
- Frank O'Hara's poem "At the Old Place" includes references to Ashbery (J.A., Ashes)
- excerpt from David Lehman’s The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets
- David Yezzi’s review of Lehman’s Last Avant-Garde
- biographical-critical essay on Ashbery
- an audio file of Ashbery reading his work
- an audio file of Ashbery interviewed by Al Filreis
- Ashbery’s review of Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation
- Liz Rahaim’s student essay on Ashbery’s influence on four L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets
- additional links to off- and on-site resources for Ashbery and the entire New York Schools of Poets
- interview with Ashbery by Daniel Kane
University of Pennsylvania / PennSound
- numerous audio files of Ashbery reading his work, from the 1970s to the present, including a reading of "Litany" with Ann Lauterbach (1980)
- audio files of interviews and discussions with Ashbery, including the Academy of American Poets Discussion with Ned Rorem and June LeBell (1986)
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