I am indebted to Ron Charles for the reminder in his Substack that Frank O’Hara was born on March 27, 1926. Charles notes that The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara, edited by Donald Allen, won a National Book Award in 1972, six years after the poet was struck by a car and died at 40.
Back in 2014, we read perhaps his best-known collection, Lunch Poems. A decade before that, we read Joe LeSueur's Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara.
And just five years ago, we read Brad Gooch's biography of the poet, City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara (highly recommended).
I've also posted several items here about O'Hara over the years, which you can (re)read by clicking on this link.
Following in LeSueur's footsteps, here is a poetic tribute to O'Hara by a Somali-American poet, Laden Osman.
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