On Tuesday, April 15, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the Writing Program at The New School presents a reading and discussion with renowned poet John Ashbery. This event to be held at Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street), will be moderated by David Lehman, poetry coordinator of the Writing Program. Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID.

John Ashbery is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, most recently, A Worldly Country (2007), Where Shall I Wander (2005), Chinese Whispers (2002), and Your Name Here (2000). Ashbery has won nearly every major American award for poetry. His collection A Wave (1984) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956) was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Ashbery was the first English-language poet to win the Grand Prix de Biennales Internationales de Poésie (Brussels) and has received the the Bollingen Prize, the English Speaking Union Prize, the Feltrinelli Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and many others. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.