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Ars Poetica #1: Frank O’Hara’s Personism
I love Frank O’Hara. Reading his poems make me feel like I’m running around the city in the summer. The energy of his work still feels fresh, nearly 50 years after his sad and untimely death. Let me...
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American All Stars : Poetry Division
The purpose of my recent trip to London was to go through the final stages of applying for a US visa. Thankfully, I passed! So I am officially heading off to Atlanta in August, and I’m really looking...
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Why.
This is a shit post, sorry. But I’ve been on an utter O’Hara binge recently. And this is running and running and running off my tongue: As Planned — Frank O’Hara After the first glass of vodka you can...
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Because I’m not totally heartless: [the Valentines poem]
So, this is pretty much the love poem I return to over and over again. Happy valentines, dearests. Steps by Frank O’Hara How funny you are today New York like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime and St....
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who are you talking to here? : epigrams
First of all I constantly mix up epigrams and epitaphs. I have various ‘tricks’ to keep the difference in my mind, but my young young brain still likes to think epiGRAm, like GRAve. But anyway,...
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dear Frank O’Hara
Mr. O’Hara would have turned 85 today if it wasn’t for that dune buggy accident. He’s still my most consistently favourite American poet. I wondered if he’d gotten old whether his poems would have...
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there is 62% chance of forest in the future.
Well, there is in my fairly immediate future, because the state of Massachusetts in 62% covered in forest and I’ll be living there in just over 3 months. After the forever and maelstrom of MFA apps,...
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