Author Archives: Andrew Epstein

Frank O’Hara and Fashion (at the Wedding of Eugenia Kim and Christopher Lee)

Posted on July 10, 2019

Frank O’Hara has recently been popping up in the world of high fashion and celebrity culture — for instance, he was named as one of the late designer Kate Spade’s muses and his work has inspired a luxury Lunch Poems … Continue reading →

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Kevin Killian (1952-2019)

Posted on June 16, 2019

Like so many others, I’m shocked and heartbroken to learn that the writer Kevin Killian passed away last night.  I first met Kevin in 1996, at the “Poetry of the 1950s” conference in Orono, Maine (where he gave a paper … Continue reading →

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“Ninth Street Women”: The New York School (of Painters, Mostly) Comes to TV

Posted on April 25, 2019

Those of us who have been hoping for years for a Frank O’Hara biopic or Netflix mini-series devoted to the New York School poets will have to wait, but there is exciting news in this department: Amazon just announced that … Continue reading →

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Frank O’Hara as a Jeopardy! Clue

Posted on April 21, 2019

The list of poets who are well-known enough to appear in a question on a television trivia game show is relatively short.  Games like Jeopardy! frequently feature questions about old standbys like Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Pound, Yeats, Hughes, … Continue reading →

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Frank O’Hara and Indie Punk (Having a Coke with Martha)

Posted on April 16, 2019

Longtime readers of this blog probably know I’m always on the lookout for moments when Frank O’Hara or other poets of the New York School pop up in the world of music.  O’Hara, especially, continues to haunt the history and … Continue reading →

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The Power of Not Being Sure: John Ashbery, Jordan Ellenberg, and Math

Posted on March 28, 2019

To my surprise, in the car the other day my math-obsessed 14-year-old son Dylan suddenly exclaimed “John Ashbery!” from the backseat.  It turns out he’d reached the last pages of Jordan Ellenberg’s 2014 book How Not To Be Wrong: The Power … Continue reading →

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Falling in Love with Frank O’Hara (via Instagram)

Posted on February 22, 2019

The writer Sinead Stubbins has a charming article in the Guardian today about how she, like so many others, came to fall in love with the poetry of Frank O’Hara.  The piece also suggests the new, digital byways that lead people … Continue reading →

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