John Ashbery has published eight collections of poetry.
Most recently, Houseboat Days.
And as we know, both of those books from Viking Press.
He has also written plays and essays and one novel.
He's currently a professor of English
at Brooklyn College, poetry editor of the Partisan Review,
an art critic for Newsweek magazine.
His honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award,
and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
I hope you'll be able to come to the union following the reading
to meet Mr. Ashbery in an informal reception.
And I'm very happy to introduce him to you this evening.
John Ashbery.
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