The Great Poet John Ashbery Is Dead

by Rich SmithPoet John Ashbery dies age 90 https://t.co/J84cyNffds
— The Guardian (@guardian) September 3, 2017
John Ashbery, the poet who won almost every literary award you could possibly imagine while also being the most fun to read, died today at home in Hudson, New York. According to The Guardian, his husband, David Kermani, says he passed of natural causes.In a class at the University of Washington, I remember hearing a professor describe Ashbery's contribution to the history of poet