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 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 ...

Frank O’Hara (1926-1966) was an American poet and art critic, and considered the leading figure of the New York School, an informal arts and literature movement which stressed the avant-garde and ...

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 ...

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 ...

LeSueur shared four New York apartments (and dozens of famous friends) with the poet Frank O'Hara during the last 10 years of the poet's life. Because O'Hara moved in the now-legendary New York art ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Ada Calhoun hoped to finish a biography of O’Hara once started by her father, the art critic Peter Schjeldahl. Instead, she wrote a searching memoir about creativity and family. By Alexandra Jacobs ...

A glassblower from Seattle reads a poem by Frank O'Hara in this continuing series from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. I first encountered this poem in college in a poetry appreciation class, and ...

Is “Also a Poet” a biography of Frank O’Hara? Of writer Ada Calhoun’s father, art critic Peter Schjeldahl? Or, as its title page insists, is it Calhoun’s memoir? Whatever it is, it’s dazzling. The ...

WORCESTER - There is no shortage of poetry contests out there — a quick Google search will net you thousands — but there’s always been something special about the Worcester County Poetry Association’s ...