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*N.B., AS OF 1 JANUARY 2010, THE ASHBERY RESOURCE CENTER WILL BECOME DORMANT WHILE WE PONDER THE FUTURE OF ITS OPERATIONS.

The ARC website will remain operational in its current state, but email will not be answered. We thank you for your past interest in this project, which we hope will survive in some form.

Professional inquiries should be directed to Mr. Ashbery's literary agent, Georges Borchardt, Inc. or his publisher, Ecco / HarperCollins.

*John Ashbery wins the Special 2009 "Premio Napoli" award for career achievement, which is presented at Columbia University's Italian Academy, 10 December, 2009, 10 December, 2009. The prize coincides with the publication of Un mondo che non puo essere migliore, a large selection of Ashbery's poetry translated into Italian by Damiano Abeni and Moira Egan.

*PennSound celebrates the second anniversary of their John Ashbery author page with a week of PennSound Daily entries highlighting newly added Ashbery recordings. (See entries for 19-23 October, 2009.)

*A video of John Ashbery speaking at the 35th Anniversary Celebration of the National Book Critics Circle on September 12, 2009, is now posted at the NBCC blog.

*In May, 2009, the Harvard Film Archive presented John Ashbery at the Movies. The program included screenings of some of Ashbery's favorite films, as well as works by filmmakers influenced by his poetry. The two-night series concluded with a conversation between Ashbery and film scholar Scott MacDonald.

*John Ashbery's collages will be found gracing two recent book covers, The Best American Poetry 2009 (series editor David Lehman; guest editor David Wagoner), and Tom Healey's new collection of poems, What the Right Hand Knows, from Four Ways Books. The collages, Acrobats and Conservatory respectively, were created circa 1972, and were both included in a 2008 exhibition of Ashbery's collages at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. You may search the ARC catalogue for citations for these works, or for references to Ashbery's collages generally.

*An essay by Michael Thomas Davis about Ashbery's collage art is now posted in the "Special Features" section of our website; "John Ashbery Makes a Collage" may also be accessed directly by clicking here.

*The latest major addition to our website is a section devoted to John Ashbery's "Created Spaces," his purposefully constructed domestic environments. Readers who enjoyed the Summer 2008 Online Edition of Rain Taxi, A Dream of this Room: A Created Spaces Portfolio of Works on John Ashbery's Textual and Domestic Environments, may find it useful to explore supplementary resources on our site. The Created Spaces section, which is a work in progress, may be accessed by clicking the "Ashbery's Created Spaces" button on our homepage or by clicking here.

*John Ashbery was recently awarded the Harvard Arts Medal and the Paris Review's Hadada Award. Visit the Honors and Awards page to learn more.

*Our annotated, online catalogue is continuously updated. Recent entries include:

John Ashbery's Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems and subsequent book reviews
translations by Ashbery: Pierre Reverdy's Haunted House; The Landscapist, a book of poems by Pierre Martory
books about Ashbery: John Emil Vincent's Ashbery and You; Andrew Epstein's Beautiful Enemies; Angus Fletcher's New Theory for American Poetry
literature influenced by Ashbery: Robert Hass's Time and Materials; Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass
musical works influenced by Ashbery: Christian Wolff's Ten Exercises ("Blue Sonata"); Elliott Carter's Quintets and Voices ("Syringa"); Charles Wuorinen's Vocal Works ("Stanzas Before Time")
blurbs by Ashbery for Robert Creeley, A.R. Ammons, Simon Armitage, Elaine Equi, and more

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