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FRANK O'HARA.COM is a premier Frank O'Hara web site.

He does this, he does that: Frank O'Hara Charles Bainbridge is charmed by Why I Am Not a Painter and Other Poems, a new selection of Frank O'Hara's poetry...Frank O'Hara is a wonderful poet - funny, moving, chatty, engaging, enthusiastic, risk-taking. Guardian Unlimited, UK, July 12, 2003.

Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara: A Memoir Review of Joe LeSueur's book by Barbara Fisher, The Boston Globe, May 4, 2003.

Joy to the World: What made Frank O'Hara great? It is coming on 40 years since Frank O'Hara was struck and killed by a dune buggy on the beach at Fire Island, but his poems still seem fresh, personable, and immediate. MSN - Slate, Books, Posted April 28, 2003.

NPR's ‘The Connection’ (Nov 19, 2001) about the poetry of Frank O'Hara (Real/Media Player required)

The Academy of American Poets' Poetry Exhibits: Frank O'Hara Short biography, Selected Bibliography & a list of Frank O'Hara exhibits elsewhere on the web.

Frank O'Hara: Publications lists his books, posthumous works and collections, pamphlets, broadsides, chapbooks, exhibitions and works on O'Hara.

Joe Engle - A Tribute to Frank O'Hara presents a portrait of Frank O'Hara with Larry Rivers while working on their collaboration "Stones", the Life and Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Bibliography and poems.

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) Modern American Poetry pages prepared and compiled by Cary Nelson. Contents: O'Hara's Life and Career; On "A Step Away from Them"; On "The Day Lady Died" ; On "Why I Am Not a Painter"; On "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island" ; On "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crosses the Delaware . . ."; On "Thinking of James Dean"; Bibliography; External Links.

Frank (Francis Russell) O'Hara The Academy of American Poets article on Frank O'Hara.

The Ayn Rand and Frank O'Hara Page Material on Ayn Rand and Frank O'Hara (State University of North Carolina).

Frank O'Hara Books The Cortland Review (An Online Literary Magazine) Bookstore: books by Frank O'Hara and their availability.

Review of Brad Gooch. City Poet Brad Gooch. City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.

Frank O'Hara: Nothing Personal Article by Elaine Equi in Conjunctions:29 Fall 1997

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966):Classroom Issues and Strategies Contributing Editor: David Bergman (Georgetown University).

Frank O'Hara: Poet among Painters Online essay by Marjorie Perloff on Frank O'Hara: Poet among Painters, new ed. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Modern and Contemporary American Poetry: Frank O'Hara offers biographical information, relevant links, e-texts of poems and online discussion.

The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara, Donald Merriam Allen (Editor), Allen Donald (Editor), John Ashbery (Introduction).

Gedichte von Frank O'Hara Poems translated into German from Poems Retrieved; translator: Johannes Beilharz

William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara Pages which discuss the relationship between these two poets.

TimeLine Theatre Company's Frank O'Hara a theatrical celebration in Chicago (January 7 to February 5, 2000) of the life and work of gay poet Frank O'Hara.

Frank O'Hara: Publications Books and collections, pamphlets, broadsides, chapbooks, exhibitions and 'On O'Hara'.

Frank O'Hara Memorial Gallery Tour the Frank O'Hara Memorial Portrait Gallery.

Frank O'Hara and American Art Russell Ferguson's book ‘In Memory of My Feelings Frank O'Hara and American Art’.

‘In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art’ an excerpt in ‘Jacket Magazine’ from the catalog which accompanies the exhibition organized by Russell Ferguson and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, July 11 - November 14, 1999, and published by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California and University of California Press, Ltd., London, England, 160 pages, bound, ISBN 0 520 22243 1.

The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Edited by Donald Allen with Introduction by John Ashbery.

Joe Brainard Archive Brainard moved to New York City in 1961 and developed friendships with Frank O'Hara and other participants in the New York School.

Frank O'Hara - Online Works : Recommended sites, Writings and About the Author.

Knopf Poetry Student Center Frank O'Hara: From a Statement for The New American Poetry, 1959.

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" Frank O'Hara's poem ‘On Seeing Larry Rivers' "Washington Crossing the Delaware" at the Museum of Modern Art’.

Frank O'Hara --Text of Poems Poetry Online: Text of poems, biography and other materials.

Frank O'Hara Poetry Page Includes: O'Hara's "Why I Am Not a Painter", "To My Dead Father", More on "Why I Am Not a Painter", "In Memory of My Feelings", "Washington Crossing the Delaware", and "Ave Maria".

The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets by David Lehman. Boston Review by Michael Tyrell.

"Last One Off the Barricade Turn Out the Lights" A study of the friendships and collaborations that created the New York School of poets. New York Times Book Review (January 3, 1999) by David Yezzi.

Alex Katz's Homage to Frank O'Hara: William Dunas, 1972 at Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC 27116. Katz’s importance as a figurative artist has been recognized since 1965. Katz paints figures that are highly simplified in contours, set in flat areas of color. He began painting his big pictures of oversized heads in the late 1960’s.

‘Interrogating Culture: Critical Hermeneutics in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara’ Article by Mark Tursi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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