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Frank O’Hara

Poetry News:

— These aren’t pastoral poems delighting in nature; they’re set in a muddy town of drunken fights —

— Try doing it, and what you’ll end up with is cheap imitation Frank O’Hara —

— Thieves steal homeless poet’s words —

— Agenda will celebrate its half centenary next year, having been founded by William Cookson and [...]

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Poetry News:

— So what did Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, do to handle all the pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, woe, bitterness, unhappiness and misery in a life that lasted over 90 years? —

— Others believed poet Sylvia Plath was lead singer of pop group the Black Eyed Peas —

— Do not panic…yet. [...]

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Poetry News:

— Official State Author and Poet Are Named —

— Owners To Open ‘Mystery Room’ Sealed For 50 Years —

— What are your feelings on MFA programs in regard to authors publishing in today’s market? —

— The rubric “poet among painters” does not adequately explain the radical shifts between formal and personal values in O’Hara’s [...]

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Poetry News:

An ATM for books —

C. K. Williams’s poems are broad in scale and narrow in scope —

Renowned Appalachian writer, literary inspiration dies at 86 —

O’Hara’s Christmas poem is as secular as can be - personal, artfully irreverent and saucy —

Ballgame Classic Hides its Feminist Nature [original poem here with missing [...]

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