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sukhi4all: This poem will always stay close to my heart. Thank you. And Happy Birthday Frank O' Hara
Artforum: “The demands of poetry and painting, of expressivity and formalism, collided in his work and would come to no easy resolution,” wrote Barrett Watten of Frank O’Hara in Artforum’s March 2008 issue.
RobertAllenPoet: great poem and it's even better when he reads it
Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"
peelijay: Frank O Hara to Lawrence, publisher of Lunch Poems!
J3mm4_vzq: "and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them
I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world"
~frank o' hara, to vincent warren
onlydumbjuice: another lunch poem by frank o’ hara
crumpulawn: A dude who tells u he reads Bukowski vs a dude who tells u he reads Frank o hara
lentemently: frank o’ hara’s “light clarity avocado salad” poem is one of my favourites because of the constant reminder to never lose focus on the material - light & clarity are grand concepts but are merely adjacent to the things that we can see, touch, and feel
rim_morrison: Frank O Hara was one of the OG gay guys with ADHD who just be sayin shit …
Sakthi38311: "it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary
...I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world"
- Frank O Hara, Having a coke with you
niviexposed: when frank o hara said we could manage cocktails out of ice and water and joni mitchell said we'll laugh and toast to nothing and smash our empty glasses down
valemarilli: Frank O’ Hara obsessed
cytwomboy: i love to make tweets that are relevant to like 3 followers… Frank o hara of tweeting if u will
abdul_black42: going on another frank o hara poetry binge
rim_morrison: Frank o Hara and…..woops
nish__t: 'At night on the dock
the buses glow like
clouds and I am lonely
thinking of flutes'
— Frank O'Hara
arielzetina: omg this is high art, giving NY 1970s Frank O Hara gay poetry
ezkl7_3: Frank O Hara is a good example
FerialPoetry: New poem. Inspired by Frank o Hara.
KowalskyNexus: hands of others, their and my impossibilities. / Is this love, now that the first love / has finally died, where there were no impossibilities?
Frank O' Hara
kytalli: Just saw a lit critic say that Frank o Hara stinks I need a break from twitter actually
rim_morrison: Did frank o Hara do poppers? Probably right?
SimonHayhoe: It feels like a Frank O'Hara day: Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"
JodiCull: One of my favorite poems…Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"
l1ttlegr33n: there’s a frank o hara line i cant quite remember exactly but it’s something like “all poets want to be painters and all painters want to be poets”
J3mm4_vzq: “Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.”
~Mayakovsky, Frank O’ Hara
ijustsartred666: Tfw you are excited about reaching peak tenderfag status bc you are getting a Frank O' Hara tattoo this week
gracecamille_: A Book of Common Prayer, Joan Didion
For Grace after a Party, Frank O Hara
paulsemel: Finished reading Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems"
paulsemel: Started reading Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems"
dildo141776: I took a big shit it was blissful - Frank o hara
gilinecas: Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
Frank o hara
trashhandler: Engaging auteur/autotheoretical work on M*dl*b (the Frank O' Hara of Rap?) which echoes Lytle Shaw's study of Frank O' Hara's coterie...just as the Nuclear Family™ is said to function as engine for consumer capitalism so 'The Entourage' becomes a limit to collective artistry...
niviexposed: girls (me) will be like idc then go on poetry foundation dot com and read frank o hara then go journal for forty five minutes and then listen to folklore four times and also rewatch glee season three episode twenty one nationals one more time
YN_Nope: For Grace, After A Party by Frank O Hara is such a quaint and joyful work.
deliwurld: This sounds like fiona Apple or smth are we sure this is Frank o Hara bot
mishkabernstein: I wouldn't want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days
[Frank O´Hara, 1950]
CelestialTayy: frank o hara's dick professor giving me headache rn....
peelijay: I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
-Frank O Hara
FerialPoetry: So of course I'm reading Frank o' Hara with my coffee - for inspiration.
niviexposed: reading so much frank o hara and feeling many things
SERGIEVSKIES: Please forgive for reacting to frank o hara poetry with a spongebob gif . But only this gif can express my emotions for "i am the least difficult of men. all i want is boundless love."
SERGIEVSKIES: I havent read frank o hara yet ..... i will remedy this today
FerialPoetry: If you know me you know I love Frank o' Hara
garriadna: Frank O' Hara my beloved
140297z: having a coke with you by frank o’ hara… we wept
princesstehangi: thank u frank o hara lol
lola_kramer: Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"
kittywitha_k: In this house every season is Frank O’ Hara season but he really does something special with Fall.
juan_dando: Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"
OmairBhat: meditations in an emergency, frank O hara
raniyahosain1: frank o hara you will literally always be famous…..
fleshelegy: cannot believe this is an actual line from an actual frank o hara poem
royamrii: times like these you must keep reciting that one Frank o’ hara // you like so much over and over while you sketch some plans over and over as well
newmetaphy_sic: lonely in the way you feel uplifted by Frank O' Hara
rfdzw: ~by Frank O' Hara
ECroydon: Frank O Hara .. Beat Poet.
(Snaps)
a__kosev: If you ask me the best Frank O Hara poem to mention food isn’t actually Having a Coke with You at all but I’m into gatekeeping now so I won’t tell
litcharts: New guide! Having a Coke with You by Frank O'Hara
yousa81632031: Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"
Claudacious2: Anybody got any favorite Frank O' Hara poems that they think I should read? I'm new to him and one of my teachers said I should read him.
busdrinker: had a dream i was dating Frank O Hara in the modern day, and i held his face in my hands. i love him. i hope he's doing well in the next life
meksnosense: frank o hara was so right when he wrote "i am the least difficult of men. all i want is boundless love."
chika_jones: I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. - Frank O Hara.
I cannot read those lines without joy bursting inside me.
cryingLulu: In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love
- Frank O’ Hara
RebornABastard: whos yalls favorite poet and u cannot say Frank O Hara bc mine is Frank O Hara
wordsthatburn: Frank O' Hara on his reason for writing.
princessekateri: ◽️Billie Holiday
◾️The Way You Look Tonight
Jacki74: My dad died on Friday, I’d like to track down his oldest friend but have no phone no. or address. They kept in touch by my dad just turning up on his doorstep every few years. His name is Frank Maloney, about 72 years old from the Mackets Lane area of Liverpool. Please help? ❤️
wordsthatburn: Which one is your favourite?
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litcharts: New guide! The Day Lady Died by Frank O'Hara
dykconicpoetics: this is one of my favorite Frank O' Hara poems so happy to see it get some love
zeremiim: Having a Coke with You. Frank O Hara.
storytellersinc: Love to go for a gorgeous walk with a gorgeous dog and a gorgeous podcast (LRB on Frank O Hara & John Ashberry) and then bump into someone who wants to tell me how much they loved my book. Ideal morning tbh.
j0rgewills: (rapidly deteriorating mentally) this frank o hara poem is very good
rilkeism: i love scrolling through my old unsent tweets because . what do you mean i was losing my mind over the goldfinch three months ago. what was my brief but passionate obsession with frank o' hara's poetry. why was i so desperately in love with edmund from shakespeare's king lear
trishanderton: Just came across this lovely and of course sad story about Frank O’ Hara’s death. It’s ironic that the man who hit him was a painter.
lucyharbron: I’m a simple girl. I see a Frank O Hara poetry bot tweet, and I retweet it.
divinityforsale: when frank o’ hara said “it’s a summer day and i want to be wanted more than anything else in the world” felt
LRB: In the latest episode of the LRB podcast, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School.
Listen here or wherever you get podcasts:
unbelievablee_: never forgiving that guy who said frank o hara’s poetry is for perverts, deleted the tweet and changed it to open relationship people lollllllll
zootedgarf: i forgot to look for frank o hara book in books&books
bristolideas: The NYT likes it: ‘Also a Poet is…a tetrahedron from which all kinds of creative characters pop forth. It’s a big valentine to New York City past and present, and a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul.’
pleinairbooks: In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad
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.
pleinairbooks: In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad
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.
zootedgarf: me want frank o hara poetry book
maiQHuun: ‘oh god it's wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much’
~ Frank O Hara
zootedgarf: frank o hara and richard siken bots are usually back-to-back after one another on my feed and i just want everyone to stop and think about how much this pains me on a daily basis
groveatlantic: YES: “ALSO A POET is packaged as a love triangle… It’s actually a tetrahedron from which all kinds of creative characters pop forth. It’s a big valentine to New York City past and present, and a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul.”
thinkingenglish: In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad
2000_mondo: In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad
raymondpsimon: "I didn't know you were a Frank O'Hara fan." -- Peter Schjeldahl to his daughter, Ada Calhoun
thinkingenglish: In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad
deonnain: "In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad" by Alexandra Jacobs via NYT
aBookPublicist: In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad
chaos_BOOKNEWS: "In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad" by BY ALEXANDRA JACOBS via NYT
earlduncand: "In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad" by Alexandra Jacobs via NYT
GlutCoop: good read. "In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad" by Alexandra Jacobs via NYT
jasonmcbride68: "It took the East Village to raise a child." The new Ada Calhoun book, ALSO A POET, sounds like an absolute hoot
eddy_sarah: convinced this is the hot girl read of the summer, if only the durham county library will order it