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Jeremy Lybarger

Jeremy Lybarger is the features editor at the Poetry Foundation. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Art in America, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and more.

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October 17, 2023
MagazineJeremy Lybarger
The Canonization of Lou Reed
In a new biography, the Velvet Underground front man embodies a New York that exists only in memory.
April 24, 2023
Jeremy Lybarger
The Lost Music of Connie Converse
A writer of haunting, uncategorizable songs, she once seemed poised for runaway fame. But only decades after she disappeared has her music found an audience.
June 17, 2022
MagazineJeremy Lybarger
Thom Gunn’s Anti-Confessional Poetry
With a genius for understatement and formal restraint, Gunn wrote some of the most powerful poetry of the AIDS crisis.
December 21, 2021
MagazineJeremy Lybarger
The Trouble With Writing About Vivian Maier
Biographers get distracted by the photographer’s unusual life story—to the point of diminishing her work itself.
October 7, 2021
Jeremy Lybarger
Man Ray’s Slow Fade From the Limelight
He made art that looked like the future. How did he become a minor figure?
April 7, 2021
Jeremy Lybarger
The Turbulent Life of Francis Bacon
Bacon’s contradictions make him the rare artist who warrants an infatuated 900-page biography.
July 22, 2020
Jeremy Lybarger
The Desolate Visions of Andy Warhol
Blake Gopnik’s biography shows an artist haunted by death, seeking refuge in consumerism.
December 22, 2016
Jeremy Lybarger
What the Next Generation of Queer Activists Can Learn From Cleve Jones
We’ve taken the dream of Jones’s generation to its ultimate capitalist end.

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