Category Archives: Frank O’Hara

Remembering John Ashbery (1927-2017)

Posted on September 6, 2017 by

This past Sunday, September 3, brought the very sad news that John Ashbery had passed away at the age of 90.  Ashbery has long been regarded as the greatest and most influential living American poet, so it is not surprising … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Fairfield Porter, Frank O'Hara, Harry Mathews, Jack Spicer, James Merrill, Jane Freilicher, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Larry Rivers, Mark Ford, Robert Creeley | 7 Comments

Buried at Springs: Frank O’Hara’s Funeral (7/27/66)

Posted on July 27, 2017 by

51 years ago today, Frank O’Hara was buried in Green River Cemetery, in Springs, New York, just steps away from the grave of one of his heroes, Jackson Pollock, two days after being struck down by a dune buggy on … Continue reading →

Posted in Alex Katz, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Bill Berkson, David Shapiro, Edwin Denby, Frank O'Hara, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, James Schuyler, Joe LeSueur, Kenneth Koch, Larry Rivers, MoMA, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning | 7 Comments

Young John Ashbery on Joyce’s “Ulysses”: “It’s Dirty!”

Posted on June 16, 2017 by

      The past couple of years, I’ve had a mini-tradition of posting something about the New York School poets and Ulysses on each Bloomsday — as you can see in these posts about Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler. … Continue reading →

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Andrew Sean Greer’s “It’s a Summer’s Day” and Echoes of Frank O’Hara

Posted on June 13, 2017 by

                        In this week’s New Yorker, there is a story by Andrew Sean Greer which quietly takes its title from a poem by Frank O’Hara.  Oddly enough, this isn’t … Continue reading →

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Look What They’ve Done to The San Remo

Posted on May 5, 2017 by

There is no shortage of opportunities to feel nostalgic for the good old days when rents were cheap, bars were smoky and filled with intellectual chatter, Kafka was the rage, and New York was a haven for rebellious artists.  Nor do you … Continue reading →

Posted in Barbara Guest, Beats, Frank O'Hara, Jack Kerouac, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, New York, William S. Burroughs | Leave a comment

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-2017), Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch

Posted on April 2, 2017 by

The great Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko died yesterday at the age of 83. A towering figure in post-World War II Russian poetry, Yevtushenko was, as the New York Times obituary put it, “an internationally acclaimed poet with the charisma of an actor and … Continue reading →

Posted in Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Russian literature, Yevgeny Yevtushenko | 1 Comment

“On Rachmaninoff’s Birthday”: Frank O’Hara and the Russian Composer

Posted on April 1, 2017 by

Today is the birthday of the Russian composer and virtuousic pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) — a date which held special significance for Frank O’Hara. Across the course of his life, O’Hara wrote seven different poems titled “On Rachmaninoff’s Birthday” — … Continue reading →

Posted in Frank O'Hara, Music, Poems, Sergei Rachmaninoff | 2 Comments