A reading, listening and discussion of Something Close to Music: Late Art Writing, Poems, and Playlists by John Ashbery (Zwirner Books), and John Ashbery Live at Sanders Theatre (LP from Fonograf Editions)

Marking the 60th anniversary of the publication of Ashbery’s seminal The Tennis Court Oath and what would have been Ashbery’s 95 birthday, The Flow Chart Foundation hosts an inaugural Gathering.

The Flow Chart Foundation returned to Hudson Hall with a new evening of one-of-a-kind neo-benshi fun.

John Ashbery’s zany modern fairy tale of life. How does it come to us? Through a mash-up of classical mythology and nursery rhyme characters with a touch of noir film banter thrown in.

Join us in a group reading-through, thinking-through of John Ashbery’s book-length poem “Flow Chart.”