As an employee at New York’s Museum of Modern Art until his death in 1966, Frank O’Hara had a lot of interactions with contemporary artists and collaborated with the likes of Jasper Johns, Willem de ...

Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems” (City Lights: 86 pp., $14.95) — which has just been reissued in a 50th anniversary hardcover edition — recalls a world of pop art, political and cultural upheaval and (in ...

Frank O’Hara wrote that his theory of poetry—a theory that he dubbed “Personism” in a mock manifesto by the same name—places the poem “squarely between the poet and the person, Lucky Pierre style, and ...

Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has made no secret of his love for Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems. With that in mind, Audible.com, Amazon’s audio book subsidiary, asked Weiner to record O’Hara’s enduring ...

As part of the museum’s “Modern Poets” series, MoMA has invited two New York poets to read from O’Hara’s so-called “Lunch Poems” and to give the audience advice on writing their own works. Stefania ...

The shy, funny, exciting, despairing poetry of Frank O'Hara You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart is a ferocious ...

Frank O’Hara’s poems capture the heady moment in the 1960s when American art stepped out of Europe’s shadow – but they are just as relevant now in the internet age, writes Jane Ciabattari. A decisive ...

The series “Mad Men” was woven through with the music, literature, and other culture of the years in which it took place, even when it wasn’t made explicit. The New York poet Frank O’Hara, whose work ...