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“Frank O’Hara: In the Heart of Noise” — London, Nov. 9
If you’re in or near London next week, you’ll want to check out this event devoted to Frank O’Hara, featuring poet, critic, and New York Schoolologist extraordinaire Mark Ford and the Aurora Orchestra. It will be on November 9th, at Kings Place in … Continue reading
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John Burnside’s “The Day Etta Died” (after Frank O’Hara)
The Guardian‘s weekly “Saturday poem” series posted a piece for today by the Scottish poet John Burnside called “The Day Etta Died,” which is of course a riff on “The Day Lady Died” by Frank O’Hara. Burnside’s poem even begins … Continue reading
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Billie Holiday, Darryl Pinckney, and reciting O’Hara while “completely blotto”
Last week, in honor of the July 17th anniversary of the day Billie Holiday died (also known hereabouts as the day Frank O’Hara wrote “The Day Lady Died”), several tributes to Lady Day popped up around the web. Yesterday, Andrew Sullivan … Continue reading
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A Visual Footnote to O’Hara’s “The Day Lady Died”: New World Writing and The Poets of Ghana
Because his poems are so overstuffed with references to proper names, movies, books, small-scale historical events, and famous or not-so-famous friends, people who love and teach Frank O’Hara’s work often talk about how useful it would be to have an annotated … Continue reading
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