6.
New York School Movement work, and her poetry often utilizes space as a way
to draw attention to language.
New York School of Poets
1950’s -1960’s Barbara Guest cont.
She received multiple honors in the poetry
Inspiration derived from surrealism and community
modernism Died on February 15, 2006
Surrealism -cultural movement which began in
the Notable Works
1920’s “Element of surprise”. The Red Gaze (Wesleyan University Press,
Modernism- A style or movement in the arts 2005)
that Miniatures and Other Poems (2002)
aims to break with classical and traditional Symbiosis (1999)
forms. Defensive Rapture (1994)
rejection of the dominant school of confessional Fair Realism (1989)
poetry Musicality (1988)
deeply influenced by the action painters of the The Nude (1986)
1950s and 1960s, particularly Jackson Pollock, Quilts (1980)
Willem de Kooning, and Larry Rivers. Biography (1980).
New York School of Poets cont. Echoes
Had commonalities with the beats.
Confessional frankness Once more riding down to Venice on borrowed
Serious and ironic horses,
Interest in surreal combination of high art and
art illusions the air free of misdemeanor, at rest in the inns of
Aesthetic mode our fathers.
Urban aspects and modernism
Helped people see the world in different ways Once again whiteness like the white chandelier.
Echoes of other poems…
Barbara Guest
Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on
Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1920
February 27, 1925.
Attended UCLA and UC Berkeley, graduated in
He studied at Harvard University, where he
1943
received his Bachelor of Arts degree, and
First generation writer for the New York School
attended Columbia University for his Ph.D.
of Poets in her early career
Originating at Harvard, where Koch met fellow
Art News magazine in 1950s, continued to write
students Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, the
articles and reviews for many art magazines.
New York School derived much of its
Tension between the lyrical (or musical) and the
inspiration from the works of action painters
graphic (or material) is a defining feature of her
Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Larry The Double Dream of Spring (1970)
Rivers, whom the poets met in the 1950s after Turandot and Other Poems (1953)
settling in New York City.
Kenneth Koch had an obscure way of poetry Frank O’ Hara
Kenneth Koch cont.
His numerous honors include
The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National
Prize for Poetry awarded by the Library of
Congress in 1996
As well as awards from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters and the
Fulbright, Guggenheim, and
Ingram-Merrill foundations.
Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara
Notable Works -March 27, 1926
A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad -Born in Baltimore, Maryland
Advice From One Long Dead -Grew up in Massachusetts
The Magic of Numbers -studied piano at the New England
To My Father's Business Conservatory in Boston
To Various Persons Talked To All At -Served in the South Pacific & Japan War
Once
Frank O’ Hara cont.
John Ashbery Harvard College: Music
Met John Ashbery
published poems in the Harvard Advocate
changed major
-left Harvard in 1950 with a degree in English
One of the most distinguished members of the
New York School of Poets
-source of inspiration for his highly original
Poetry
Notable Works
A City Winter (1952)
1927- Present Meditations in an Emergency (1956)
Father – Farmer, mother – Biology teacher Lunch Poems (1964)
Attended Harvard graduated in 1949.
Receives Fulbright Fellowship. Lines to A Depressed Friend
During this time he becomes an editor of the
12 issues of Art and Literature Joyous you should be,
served as the art editor for the European
edition of the New York Herald Tribune of all things sweet the most constant and most
1963, Andy Warhol , known for pop art. pure,
John Ashbery cont. eager for what might be obtained--
A Wave (1984)
Mirror (1975) Luck and life and hideous certainty preventing,
Three Poems (1972)
April Galleons (1987) ease and certainty inclining to neglect,
Shadow Train (1981)
so that real world, blue in the eye! this
Writers/Poets
umber sky about us drowns. And where
emptiness appears bounding along, of
unrest the most diligent athlete and keenest mate,
remember the pleasure, even there, your beauty
affords.
7. Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement started
The Black Arts Movement was a Black with Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones].
nationalism movement that focused on music, Notable Works:
literature, drama, and the visual arts made up "The Music: Reflection on Jazz and Blues",
of Black artists and intellectuals. "The Book of Monk",
"New Music, New Poetry"
The Black Arts Movement sought to change
how blacks were represented and portrayed in
literature and the arts.
The Black Arts Movement began—symbolically,
at least—the day after Malcolm X was
assassinated in 1965. The poet LeRoi Jones gave
the movement its name, (soon to rename
himself Amiri Baraka) announced he would
leave his integrated life in New York City’s
Lower East Side for Harlem. There he founded Audre Lorde’s Works
the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School
(BARTS), home to workshops in poetry,
playwriting, music, and painting.
Key Ideas of the Movement
The Black Arts, wrote poet Larry Neal, was “the
aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power
concept.” As with that burgeoning political
movement, the Black Arts Movement
emphasized self-determination for Black
people, a separate cultural existence for Black
people on their own terms, and the beauty and
goodness of being Black.
Main Goal of the Movement
The group called for the creation of poetry,
novels, visual arts, and theater to reflect pride
in black history and culture. This new emphasis James Baldwin
was an affirmation of the autonomy of black
artists to create black art for black people as a
means to awaken black consciousness and
achieve liberation.
James Baldwin's novels included Go Tell It on
the Mountain (1953), Giovanni's Room (1956),
Another Country (1962), and If Beale Street
Could Talk (1974; film 2018). He wrote the plays
The Amen Corner (1955) and Blues for Mister
Charlie (1964)
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz
pianist and composer. He had a unique
improvisational style and made numerous
contributions to the standard jazz repertoire,
including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk",
"Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked
Bud", and "Well, You Needn't
