Yes, Frank O’Hara was featured in the last episode of Mad Men, season 2, and that’s how I first heard about him. Recently I acquired “Meditations in an Emergency” collection of poems, and to my delight, found that he’s an exceptionally talented poet. He mixes nuggets of pop culture with vivid images and aptly coiling

"I'm glad that the rock is heavyand that it feels all right in my heartlike an eye in a pot of humus.Let's write long letters on grand themes,fish sandwiches, egg sandwiches, and cheese;or traveling in Mexico, Italy and Australia.I eat a lot so I won't get drunk and thenI drink a lot so I'll feel excited and then I've gone away and I don't know whereor with whom and ...

yet you will always live in a jealous society of accident you will never know how beautiful you are or how beautiful the other is, you will continue to refuse to die for yourself you will continue to sing on trying to cheer everyone up and they will know as they listen with excessive pleasure that you're dead and they will not mind that they have let you entertain at the expense of the only ...

... , (one has to assume he knew a few junkies as well) and a more complicated Frank graced other impressive films including John Frankenheimer&# ... overly scrubbed) screen adaptation of John O'Hara's epistolary novel and subsequent Rodgers and ... a shrug of his shoulders. We don't need to hear if she's O.K. or not. She, he, anyone, would certainly be "oke" by then. It's ...

... John Berryman Hoops, by Major Jackson Lunch Poems, by Frank O’Hara No Nature, by Gary Snyder Green Squall, by Jay Hopler ... for these, in Harvard Square! In person!) I can't attest to how good these are due to my own ignorance, except for one or two (Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems, for example). Christopher, however, saw the list and boldly one-upped Mr. Gordinier, mentioning poet Ellen ...

... his particular brilliance as a lyric poet, comparable to Frank O’Hara (a poet Spicer declared he didn’t care for, with O’Hara thinking much the same in kind) that the contradictions, competing desires and unexpected ... as prose stylist. Half Life:Poems poems by Meghan O'Rourke Meghan O'Rourke,poetry editor for The Paris Review and a cultural editor for Slate,is also a poet with ...

... in the City Lights Books 50th Anniversary celebration and reading (East Coast celebration) at the Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, NYC, at which he interpreted work from Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (1964) and shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt, Anne Waldman, and Karen Finley. In 2005 and again in 2006 Mr. ...

The Center for the Humanities invites you to celebrate the publication of The Amiri Baraka/Edward Dorn Correspondence; The Kenneth Koch/Frank O’Hara Letters: Selections; Muriel Rukeyser: Darwin & the Writers; Philip Whalen’s Journals: Selections: Robert Creeley: Contexts of Poetry, with selections from Daphne Marlatt’s Journals. These comprise ...

... as we stroke its head (which subconsciously makes us think of our own mortality), to a frank and startling comparison of the cat’s pleasure and that ... of broken lyricism, from “Dining out with Doug and Frank.” On page 173, Schuyler tells us, ... ;s poems. We wish Schuyler could be addressing an actual Frank O’Hara getting up to dust himself off after being hit by the buggy that ( ...

... hip and the other moving around expressively, stands the poet Frank O’Hara. Later, they both sit in front of a typewriter, pouring over pages of what would later become The Last Clean Shirt. O’Hara plays with his cat, who moves from the table to his lap ... they work. Leslie smokes a Fidel-like stub of a cigar while O’Hara opts for the ol’ regular Camel. A few ...

... This collection is even better than King-Cat Classix. My post about Porcellino at The Book Design Review Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara Jen Bekman got me into O’Hara. This collection, written while O’Hara was on his lunch break, includes the great “Ave Maria” and “Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)” Await Your ...

A Monday sort of poem: Part of "Mayakovsky," from Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency, as quoted in Season 2 of Mad Men, which I am re-watching: Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe ... (The title is from part 2 of the poem but I'm quoting part 4; I found the whole thing online here. Frank O'Hara was a musician, too.)

-(Frank O’Hara) Money and any faith I had in California to deliver me from the troubles of my own creation dried up, and I am staying here in Dallas for the rest of the year.  To go back to the O’Hara poem: “I’ve got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my

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... a bit about Hawaiian poet Tui Scanlan, who's at the Poets Asylum and the Dirty Gerund this week. In addition, Craig Semon has a great little story on the Frank O'Hara tribute tonight, and Richard Duckett's got another little piece on the "Tellebrate" storytellers performance at the Green Rooster Saturday. That's an ...