As everyone knows, Frank O’Hara was an unabashed, passionate fan of the movies — and of movie stars. He stanned James Dean and Greta Garbo and Lana … Continue reading
Have you ever looked at a collage by an artist like Picasso or Joseph Cornell, Kurt Schwitters or Joe Brainard, and felt a powerful urge to immediately go make a collage yourself? Perhaps there’s something about the tactile, playful, anyone-can-do-it premise … Continue reading
Last week, tragic news hit the worlds of indie rock and contemporary poetry simultaneously. The musician and poet David Berman, leader of the acclaimed indie band Silver Jews, had passed away at the age of 52, after a long struggle … Continue reading
A few years ago, I introduced the work of the poet Robert Creeley to an undergraduate student of mine at Florida State University named Grayson Goga. Like so many students, Grayson fell for Creeley’s work — but unlike many students, he … Continue reading
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
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
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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