Frank O’Hara

Maybe

January 2, 2026 by JosieHolford

Read the guidelines for W3 #192 at the Skeptic’s Kaddish METAPHYSICAL POEM by Frank O’Hara When do you want to go I’m not sure I want to go there where do you want to go any place I think I’d fall apart any place else well I’ll go if you really want to I don’t … Read more

Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, #1952Club, and New World Writing

April 29, 2025April 25, 2025 by JosieHolford

Before the fragmented world of Instagram poets and TikTok book clubs, there was New World Writing: fifty cents, one paperback, and a whole literary world right on the magazine shelf at the drugstore and at the corner newsstand. Paperbacks, a Party, and Poets: The Story of New World Writing One evening in December 1951, a … Read more

Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]

January 20, 2025June 2, 2017 by JosieHolford

There’s a story behind every poem. There’s always a story. And the story behind this one is that the poet – Frank O’Hara – was on his way to Staten Island where he was to give a reading with Robert Lowell at Wagner College. It was February 1962 and the weather was nasty. O’Hara picked up … Read more