John Ashbery has been played on NTS shows including Fifth World w/ Ian Kim Judd, with Thoughts of a Young Girl first played on 21 February 2018.

John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. In an article on Elizabeth Bishop in his Selected Prose, he accurately characterizes himself as having been described as 'a surrealist poet whose poetry defies even the logic of surrealism'.