The New York School of Poets has, since its inception, been centred on peoples’ meeting, rubbing off on, knowing, collaborating with, being inspired by, and most of all—talking—to other people, many of whom happened to be artists and poets. In this vibrant and insightful collection, twenty-five New York School poets are given an opportunity to explore and define the milieu they wrote from and to shed light on their journeys through New York and through poetry. Collected over a three-year period, these fascinating and compelling conversations tackle, reframe and probe the question of what constitutes the New York School.

This bumper collection of interviews with poets of the New York School will delight newcomers as well as those who thought we knew the work. This sparkling cornucopia lets us learn from the contradictions and differing recollections, as well as the generosity of individual voices and their amazing life-histories. Indispensable. -- Geoff Ward, University of Cambridge

Yasmine Shamma is Professor of Literature at the University of Hull. She is the author of Spatial Poetics: Second Generation New York School Poetry (2018), editor of Joe Brainard's Art (2019) and lead editor of Migration Culture and Identity (2023). Alongside Rona Cran, she is co-founder of the Network for New York School Studies. Rona Cran is Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century American Literature at the University of Birmingham. Their publications include I Remember Kim (2023) and Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture (2014). They are the founding co-director of the Network for New York School Studies with Yasmine Shamma. Nick Sturm is a Lecturer in English at Georgia State University. He is the editor of Early Works by Alice Notley (2023), co-editor of Get the Money!: Collected Prose, 1961-1983 by Ted Berrigan (2022) and author of a forthcoming book on the New York School.