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Category Archives: Television
“Ninth Street Women”: The New York School (of Painters, Mostly) Comes to TV
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
Frank O’Hara as a Jeopardy! Clue
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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Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner and his Love for (and new Recording of) Frank O’Hara
As I’ve mentioned a few (well, maybe more than a few) times before, the beloved TV show Mad Men surprised and delighted poetry fans everywhere when it incorporated Frank O’Hara’s poetry into the show’s second season in 2008. Over the … Continue reading
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The Finale of Mad Men and Frank O’Hara: A Theory
Yesterday, I pondered whether there might have been a sly nod to Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke with You” in the final moments of the Mad Men finale. Now, on further reflection, I think there may have been even more … Continue reading
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Having a Coke with Don Draper and Frank O’Hara
The breathlessly-awaited series finale of the television show Mad Men aired this week, and the web has been teeming with recaps and commentary, especially on the significance of the show’s enigmatic final moments. (Warning: spoilers ahead). The endlessly dissected conclusion of … Continue reading
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Mad Men’s Love Affair with Frank O’Hara: “A Magical Occurrence”
I suppose my days of posting about Mad Men and Frank O’Hara are probably numbered, as the show’s final season begins this Sunday. But the media hype about the show’s final run is reaching a fever pitch, and the New York Times … Continue reading
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No, Mad Men Didn’t Rescue Frank O’Hara from Obscurity
The New York Times recently ran a piece that highlighted the effect Mad Men has had on Frank O’Hara’s reputation. It claimed that, thanks to the television show, O’Hara has gone from being a “relatively obscure poet of the New York School” to … Continue reading
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Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner and Frank O’Hara
As I mentioned a few days ago, the New York Times recently discussed the impact the television show Mad Men has had on Frank O’Hara reputation — or, more precisely, on O’Hara’s sales figures. In today’s New York Times Book Review, there is an … Continue reading
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Mad Men and the now “much less obscure poet” Frank O’Hara
In the New York Times today, there is a piece about the long-awaited return of the television show Mad Men this evening, and how much has changed in the years since it first aired: “Seven years on, much has changed for everyone … Continue reading
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Kenneth Koch and … Mr. Rogers
Evan Kindley just reminded me of a great and unusual short clip that is floating around on YouTube — in which Kenneth Koch is interviewed by Mr. Rogers, of all people. The person who posted this mentions the clip comes … Continue reading
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Andrew Epstein
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets 