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Emily Post-Avant: On the Matter of Who Is Presently the Greatest Living Poet of “America,” and Certain Intriguing Rumors that John Ashbery May Have Faked His Death and is Now Hiding in British Columbia, 2/20/2020
Dear Emily Post-Avant, Here is my question. Now that John Ashbery is not here, who would you say the greatest living American poet is? Harold Bloom would surely tell us, but he is not here anymore,…
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Emily Post-Avant
- Emily Post-Avant: On the Matter of Who Is Presently the Greatest Living Poet of “America,” and Certain Intriguing Rumors that John Ashbery May Have Faked His Death and is Now Hiding in British Columbia, 2/20/2020
- Emily Post-Avant, 2/3/2020 : On American Dirt, Varieties of Lit-Field Cynicism, and Barbed-Wire Table Centerpieces
- Emily Post-Avant on Commune Magazine, Rape Charges, and Sending the Bourgeois Family to the Dustbin of History, 1/24/2020
- Emily Post-Avant, On Language Poets as Hired Judges for the Official Poetry Prize System, 1/14/2020
- Emily Post-Avant, On Anthony Madrid Throwing Some Dark Shade at Her in the Paris Review Daily, 12/11/19
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