Andrew Epstein
@andrewepstein3
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Prof/Chair of English @FloridaState; "Cambridge Intro to American Poetry," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies" & "Locus Solus: NY School Poets" blog
Tallahassee, FL
Joined January 2013
My new book -- "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945" -- has a cover! (It's Grace Hartigan's 1957 painting "Billboard"). The book should be out in December, and is now available for pre-order here):
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Out on the road today, I saw a Deahead sticker on a Cybertruck /.A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back"
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RT @kjavadizadeh: Today, a second conversation about the late Alice Notley. The brilliant poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joined me to ta….
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Evan Kindley (@evankindley) reviews Nathan Kernan's long-awaited new biography of the great James Schuyler for @thenation
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RT @kjavadizadeh: I talked with Nick Sturm about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the Stat….
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Great to see this tribute to Alice Notley (1945-2025) at McNally Jackson Books in NY (SoHo)
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The New York Times's obituary for the great Alice Notley (1945-2025)
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RT @HZeavin: Last month I delivered a talk on psychoanalysis and poetry at Saint Mark's Church. Today, it appears in the @parisreview. I wr….
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Rare photo of 4 New York School poets together -- John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler at a party in 1955, young, laughing, full of life. For more on the photo:
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Kenneth Koch at 100 -- tributes and celebrations to the great poet and his legacy, including at the New School in February and one coming up on 5/17 at the Flow Chart Foundation (@flowchartfdn) in Hudson, NY, which I'm honored to be participating in
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“April is the seduction of the world. And yet.” — Joshua Clover (RIP)
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RT @GarthGreenwell: I wrote about memorizing poems as a kind of soul-making—an antidote for social media zombification. Link in profile. ht….
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RT @TheAtlantic: What makes a great American poem? The Atlantic surveyed more than 450 people—including poets, fiction writers, publishers,….
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RT @KUEnglish: The #KUenglish Dept is excited to welcome @andrewepstein3 Fri 4/4 @ 4 for a Gunn Memorial Lecture: "William James, Attention….
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David Wallace writes about Joe Brainard and the new selection of his letters (edited by Daniel Kane).
I wrote about Joe Brainard, poet, painter, and darling of 1960s and 1970s NYC counterculture. It made me think about a simple, if increasingly difficult question: whom do we make art for?.
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RT @Ginsbergpoem: @andrewepstein3 - Kenneth Koch-Allen Ginsberg collaboration - 2 Making It Up - Popeye and William Blake - https://t.….
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RT @epsteingross: had the absolute time of my life speaking with the incomparable @kristinhersh for this @throwingmuses profile out in @Pas….
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If you had told me in 1994 after I bought "Hips and Makers" that in 2025 my own daughter would have the chance to interview @kristinhersh and write a big profile of her and @throwingmuses . Well, I'm not sure what I would've said but I would have had a very strong reaction.
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RT @PasteMagazine: In the grand scheme of PJ Harvey's career, her fourth solo record, 'Is This Desire?,' often gets overlooked. It’s unders….
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