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...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...
...Koch and O'Hara who later urged Ashbery to move to New York City, the poet's mecca, where he currently resides...
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...
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...
...John Ashbery '49, the man often called "the universal poet." He is sometimes referred to as "the Walt Whitman of our time" for his ability to find the sublime in the mundane and to transcend the personal to explain the shared sentiments of the nation...