This recording is an audio excerpt from the TV program USA: Poetry: Frank O'Hara. This episode was the 11th in a series of interviews and readings, produced and directed by Richard Moore, for KQED-TV and WNET. This segment of the program was filmed on March 5, 1966 in New York City at O'Hara's home. The show originally aired on September 1, 1966.

Song (Is it dirty)

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Four recordings of poems read by Frank O'Hara at a poetry reading at the Lockwood Memorial Library, SUNY, Buffalo on September 25, 1964. Click on the links below to listen:

Metaphysical Poem

Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)

Political Poem on a Last Line of Pasternak's

Poem (Hoopla! yah yah yah)

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The next two poems were recorded at a poetry reading at New York University, April 7, 1964:

The Inca Mystery [Excerpt from 3 Poems About Kenneth Koch]

The Trout Quintet

Note: The CD Voice of the Poet: Frank O'Hara from Random House, which includes 23 recorded poems, is now available. The recordings presented on this site are not included on the CD.

Museum of Modern Art - Think Modern
Modern Poets: Frank O'Hara

"This program features poets John Ashbery and Bill Berkson, artist Alfred Leslie, and Museum Archivist Michelle Elligott as they share their memories of O'Hara and his love for poetry and art during his time at MoMA."

Download Mp3 from MoMA.org
Novermber 30, 2006 - 61 mins. / 66 MB
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