Frank O’Hara

Born: March 27,

1926 Maryland

Died: July 25, 1966

New York

Occupation: Poet,

writer and art

critic

Citizenship: USA

He attended St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury

Studied piano at the New England Conservatory

Served in the South Pacific as a sonarman

Attended Harward University short time, finished University of Mishigan

Living with Joe LeSueur for 11 years

About his life

Generally autobiographicalTreat poetry dissmissively (as something to be done only in the moment)

Influence of Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, Russion poetry and French Symbolism

Influenced by William Carlos Williams

His poetry

In films in the 2011 film BeastlyIn literaturea minor character in William Boyd’s novel Any

Human HeartIn televisionin the season 1 episode of the HBO series

Bored to Deathseveral episodes of season 2 of the television

series Mad Men

In popular culture

A City Winter and Other Poems, 1951Oranges: 12 pastorals, 1953Meditations in an Emergency, 1957Second Avenue, 1960Odes, 1960Lunch Poems, 1964, Love Poems, 1965

Books in lifetime

In Memory of My Feelings, 1967The Collected Poems of Frank

O'Hara, 1971The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara,

1974Standing Still and Walking in New

York, 1975Early Writing, 1977

Posthumous works