Bio: Entries: Calypso - "John Ashbery has written a poem called 'Variations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox' in which the calypso section is in couplets." Cubist Poetry - "Some of the writings of Gertrude Stein, E.E. Cummings, Kenneth Rexroth, and John Ashbery could b classified as cubist, especially if the conventional sequential arrangement of words and other elements is superseded by something like a simultaneous graphic display." New York School - Works of his appear in John Myers' The Poets of the New York School (1969). Pantoum - "Excellent examples have been produced by the contemporary poets John Ashbery ('Hotel Lautreamont') and Robert Morgan ('Audubon's Flute')." Prose Poem - "John Ashbery's Three Poems is a whole book consisting of three long pieces of prose. The point seems to be that a writing in prose-- even the most prosaic -- is a poem if the author says so." Pseudomorph - "Poems titled 'sonnet' by William Carlos Williams and John Ashbery do not fit the fourteen-line format expected of the sonnet, but that designation has been flexible in the past." Sestina - Listed as one of those who have practiced the form with success in English. Surrealism - "Literary surrealism finally reached the United States after World War II and became an important feature in the work of Robert Lowell and many younger poets:...John Ashbery..."