Today would have been the 100th birthday of Frank O'Hara!
Celebrate the famous New York poet by reading some of his texts - we have a large selection of books by & on him in our collection!
#FrankOHara #QueerWriters #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature #Poetry #BOTD #OTD
Letters to Live Poets at fifty: sound as ever
"No notes are given as I can’t remember all of the sources."https://daveydreamnation.com/non-fiction/essays/letters-to-live-poets-at-fifty-sound-as-ever/
#ArtBlog but connecting #FrankOHara to #EdwardGorey to why it’s the unseen that is often why a work resonates.
#Art #Painting #Poetry #FineArt #CreativeProcess #creative
https://open.substack.com/pub/tallpainter/p/oranges?r=3i6ry0&utm_medium=ios
"Krushchev is coming on the right day!"
-- Frank O'Hara, Poem [“Khrushchev is coming on the right day!”]
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Because of the line spacing, I won't try to put more of this (funny, subtle) poem here -- instead, go read it here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57553/poem-khrushchev-is-coming-on-the-right-day
Today's poem:
St. Paul and All That
- by Frank O'Hara
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/741564463709405184/st-paul-and-all-that?source=share
#poetry #visit #presence
#absence #FrankOHara #visitation #joy #quirkiness #affection
greetings from / the temporarily living
Dear Frank O’Hara
Ken Pobo
https://londongrip.co.uk/2023/05/london-grip-new-poetry-summer-2023/#pobo