Category Archives: Joe LeSueur

Roundup of Recent “New York School of Poetry” News and Links (1/20/20)

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Andrew Epstein

Here’s the latest roundup of some recent links, new publications, and news related to the New York School of poets. (Previous roundups can be found here). — For The Rambling, literary scholar Jason Farr wrote a moving personal essay about … Continue reading →

Posted in Alice Notley, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Anne Waldman, Barbara Guest, Beck, Bill Berkson, Brian Glavey, Eileen Myles, Elaine de Kooning, Frank O'Hara, George Schneeman, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Joe Brainard, Joe LeSueur, John Ashbery, John Cage, John Giorno, John Yau, Kenneth Koch, Lorenzo Thomas, Merce Cunningham, MoMA, Nell Blaine, Peter Schjeldahl, Robert Rauschenberg, Robin Coste Lewis, Ron Padgett, Roundup, Roy Lichtenstein, Tracy K. Smith, Visual Art, Wynn Chamberlain | 1 Comment

Vincent Warren, love of Frank O’Hara’s life, passes away at 79

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Andrew Epstein

Sad news for readers of Frank O’Hara: Vincent Warren, the ballet dancer who has often been described as the true love of O’Hara’s life, passed away on October 25 at the age of 79, some 50 years after O’Hara himself.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Frank O'Hara, In Memoriam, Jackson Pollock, Joe LeSueur, Vincent Warren, Willem de Kooning | 13 Comments

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

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Andrew Epstein

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 | 9 Comments

Look What They’ve Done to The San Remo

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Andrew Epstein

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, Joe LeSueur, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, New York, William S. Burroughs | Leave a comment

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

Posted on April 1, 2017 by Andrew Epstein

Today is the birthday of the Russian composer and virtuosic 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, Joe LeSueur, Music, Poems, Sergei Rachmaninoff | 3 Comments

Bill Berkson (1939-2016) and Frank O’Hara: “Bill’s School of New York”

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

Yesterday brought the very sad news that the poet and art critic Bill Berkson had passed away at the age of 76.  Berkson was of course of central importance to the New York School and its legacy, and over the coming days and months there … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Bill Berkson, David Shapiro, Frank O'Hara, In Memoriam, James Schuyler, Joe LeSueur, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Philip Guston, Pierre Reverdy, Ron Padgett, Uncategorized, Willem de Kooning | 3 Comments

Frank O’Hara Celebrates Dancing at a Gay Bar

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Andrew Epstein

In the midst of all the horror and great sadness about the tragedy that occurred in Orlando last night at the gay bar Pulse, I keep thinking of a poem Frank O’Hara wrote in 1955 called “At the Old Place.” This daring piece is one … Continue reading →

Posted in Frank O'Hara, Jack Spicer, Joe LeSueur, John Ashbery, Poems, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Frank Lima’s Ode to the New York School of Poets

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Andrew Epstein

The poet Frank Lima, who passed away in 2013, was an important yet undersung member of the New York School of poetry’s second generation.  Although he was close with Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, David Shapiro, and many other poets of the first and … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Beats, David Shapiro, Frank Lima, Frank O'Hara, Guillaume Apollinaire, Joe LeSueur, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman | 1 Comment

Wynn Chamberlain (1927-2014), Painter of “Poets Dressed and Undressed”

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Andrew Epstein

The painter Wynn Chamberlain recently passed away at the age of 87, the New York Times reported on Sunday.  Friendly with Frank O’Hara and other poets of the New York School, a fixture in the Andy Warhol orbit, Chamberlain achieved notoriety in the mid-1960s for his series … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Beats, Bill Berkson, Frank Lima, Joe Brainard, Joe LeSueur, John Giorno, Taylor Mead, Tony Towle, Visual Art, Willem de Kooning, William S. Burroughs, Wynn Chamberlain | 1 Comment

Frank O’Hara, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the Evolution of Lunch Poems

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Andrew Epstein

w There’s been a lot of welcome attention lately to the 50th anniversary of Frank O’Hara’s 1964 book Lunch Poems, including a star-studded group reading of the book at the Poetry Project the other night.  As I mentioned before, City Lights … Continue reading →

Posted in Allen Ginsberg, Beats, Frank O'Hara, Joe LeSueur, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Letters / Correspondence, Vincent Warren | Leave a comment