This is somewhat old news, but last year, The Flow Chart Foundation — the organization devoted to exploring “poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of American poet John Ashbery” — hosted a 38-day Twitter “slow reading” of Ashbery’s book-length poem Flow Chart, in which they invited participants and onlookers to take part in (or just watch and listen) a group discussion of the experience, which was led by poet and editor Emily Skillings.

To mark the conclusion of the “slow reading” project, the Flow Chart Foundation hosted an online event (which you can see in full above) on February 15, 2022, which brought together Skillings, poet and translator Marcella Durand, and myself to discuss the poem and our experience of reading it and to share questions, revelations, and conundrums, with input from those attending. Moderated by Flow Chart’s Executive Director, Jeffrey Lependorf.