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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrote his senior thesis on W.H. Auden, whom Ashbery met while an undergraduate when the British poet came to read at the University in March...

Author: By John Ashbery, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads Modern Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...fact, for an aspiring poet like Ashbery, Shoptaw says, the best aspect of college in terms of his education as a writer was the poet-friendly atmosphere. Ashbery seems to have benefited from friendships with many other young writers as well as from having at least one good outlet for publication, he says...

Author: By John Ashbery, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads Modern Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Koch and O'Hara who later urged Ashbery to move to New York City, the poet's mecca, where he currently resides...

Author: By John Ashbery, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads Modern Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Other writers instrumental in Ashbery's development as a poet were Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore. In the 1960s Ashbery called Moore, who also published in the Advocate, "the greatest living poet...

Author: By John Ashbery, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads Modern Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Louisa Solano, owner of the Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge, where Ashbery gives frequent readings, prefers to simply let her actions speak for her feelingxs about the poet's work...

Author: By John Ashbery, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads Modern Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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