Introduction: New York School Collaborations and The Coronation Murder Mystery; Mark Silverberg 1. 'Our program is the absence of any program': the New York School Reading the Past; Ben Hickman 2. Ballet, Basketball and the Erotics of New York School Collaboration; Terence Diggory 3. 'Permeation, ventilation, occlusion': Reading John Ashbery and Joe Brainard's The Vermont Notebook in the Tradition of Surrealist Collaboration; Susan Rosenbaum 4. Slippery Subjects: Thoughts on the Occasion of Ashbery and Koch's 'Death Paints a Picture'; Ellen Levy 5. Fair Realism: The Aesthetics of Restraint in Barbara Guest's Collaborations; Kimberly Lamm 6. Life Without Malice: The Minor Arts of Collaboration; Jenni Quilter 7. 'An Opposite Force's Breath': Medium-boundedness, Lyric Poetry and Painting in Frank O'Hara'; Monika Gehlawat 8. Mourning Coterie: Morton Feldman and Frank O'Hara's Posthumous Collaborations; Ryan Dohoney 9. 'Everything Turns into Writing': Rhizomes and Poetry Re-Processings in Ted Berrigan's Sonnets; Flore Chevaillier 10. Giant Creatures Sculpted Here: Collectivity, Gender, and Performance in the Collaborations of Eileen Myles; Erica Kaufman