live interactive webcast featuring poet John Ashbery
at the Kelly Writers House
March 26, 2002

Above, John Ashbery and Al Filreis during the March 26, 2002, Writers House Fellows discussion, webcast live. At Cornell University an entire class of students taught by Jonathan Monroe and Joel Kurzai participated (see below). At Eastern Michigan University Randal Baier (shown at right) made the Writers House webcast available to students and faculty at EMU's Halle Library. Among others who participated were Penn alumnus Bob Martin, who was in Beijing, and eminent poetry scholar and critic, Marjorie Perloff, who spoke with us from Los Angeles.

Ashbery visited the Writers House as a Kelly Writers House Fellow on March 25-26, 2002. On the evening of March 25, he read from your name here (2000) and As Umbrellas Follow Rain (2001). The recording of that event is linked here. On the morning of March 26, Ashbery returned to the Writers House and participated in the interview/conversation led by Al Filreis that is depicted above. The recording of that discussion is linked here.

The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program is made possible by a generous grant from Paul Kelly.