John Most

poet

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My new book of poems--Winter Works.

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Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918. The Art Institute of Chicago. 

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"Nights" by Paul Bowles from Next to Nothing (Black Sparrow Press, 1981)

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Saturn, as seen by JWST, on June 25, 2023

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“Three Mile Island: Night 1” by Yvonee Jacquette (1983)

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Tu: Poems by Cid Corman (Toothpaste Press, 1983)

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Mr. Rogers and Big Bird

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The poetry class I have been teaching at WriterHouse this winter ends on Wednesday. Our guest reader will be John Ashbery via a video from May 1973.

John Ashbery, “Soonest Mended” from The Double Dream of Spring.

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A new video for a poem that I wrote with Pauline Oliveros is up and running today. Working with Pauline is not something that’s easily explained. She possessed a preternatural receptivity. If you listen, you will hear our voices take turns reciting “In Absentia.”

John Most / Crozet, Virginia / Wednesday July 19, 2017

John Most - In Absentia ft. Pauline Oliveros

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Anacreon, who died c. 485 BCE, was a Greek lyric poet.

Or sip with him the Nectared Bowl, Delightful sips! which cheer the Soul.

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Michael McClure--call and response with lions. 

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“In Absentia,” a poem that I wrote with Pauline Oliveros, has finally found a home. The poem appears in the March 2016 of the Journal of Poetics Research, a poetry journal founded by John Tranter. You can see the full masthead here. You can read the March 2016 issue here. You can read the the poem, “In Absentia,” here. 

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Happy birthday, Edgar Allan Poe!

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Townes van Zandt -- “Snowin’ on Raton”

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Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)

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Ok, my new book of poems, What Thoughts, is out and available. All's well. #relieved