Frank O'Hara Poetry Reading by Shanid.
FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)
Born Francis Russell O'Hara in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. O'Hara grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts. Attended St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, the New England Conservatory, Harvard University and University of Michigan. O'Hara served his country in World War II ,worked as a teacher and as an assistant curator for The Museum of Modern Art in New York after leaving university. The various art movements of the twentieth century had a profound influence on the way that O'Hara approached his writing. Vincent Warren, O'Hara's long-term partner, was the inspiration for many of his poems. OHara died in 1966 as a result of being struck by a car.
Further reading:
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (California University Press)
Frank O'Hara Selected Poems (Carcanet Press Ltd)
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara (City Lights Publishers)
Mediations in an Emergency (Grove Press)
