Mark Hillringhouse, in his book of interviews with the poets of the New York School, lets the poets speak for themselves in their own words about the poetry they were writing, giving readers for the first time, a full picture of how they created and forged a new poetics. By interviewing the poets in their homes, he lets readers see inside their world during the years they were at their peak. Along with the interviews, Hillringhouse, who is also a photographer, includes never before seen photographic portraits of each of the poets and personal letters that they wrote. It is a full account of how these poets were influenced and how they interacted with each other as they explain what brought them to poetry and how they developed their poetic craft. Hillringhouse provides an in-depth introduction to each of the interviews that includes John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby, Barbara Guest, Bob Holman, Kenneth Koch, Bernadette Mayer, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Simon Pettet, James Schuyler, Tony Towle, Gerald Stern, Paul Violi, and Anne Waldman.

Author: Mark Hillringhouse
Paperback, 404 pages, 2025
ISBN-13: 9781947175662

Mark Hillringhouse is a poet, essayist, and art photographer, whose work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, The New Jersey Monthly, and The Paris Review, among others. A three-time recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and a two-time recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award (2012, 2024), he is also the winner of the National Parks Calendar Photography Contest award (2012), and has exhibited his photography at the Paterson Museum (NJ), the Soho Gallery of Digital Art (NY), and numerous other venues.  Talking All Night is his third publication for Serving House Books, following Between the Frames (2012) and Paterson: Light and Shadow (2017). A retired college professor of English and photography, he resides in New Jersey.