Some Info on Frank O’Hara

 Online Sources

“Frank O'Hara”, on Poets.org - http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/164

Some poems, best bio &c, + some critical/lit.hist. pieces (“Frank O'Hara: A Poet among Painters” - http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5920) is best

“Frank O'Hara 1926–1966”, on Poetry Foundation - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/frank-ohara#poet

Lots of poems, + some lectures & podcasts

“Frank O'Hara”, on E P C: electronic poetry center - http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ohara/

Good links to O’Hara online

Frank O’Hara.org - http://www.frankohara.org/

Some poems, +images, audio & video (including of O’Hara)

“Frank O'Hara (1926-1966”), on Modern American Poetry - http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/ohara/ohara.htm

Bio &c, and some images, + pieces on some individual poems

In Print

 Frank O’Hara, Selected Poems (edited Donald Allen), Carcanet (2005)

Frank O’Hara, Lunch Poems (City Lights Books Pocket Poets, 1986)

edited Mark Ford & Trevor Winkfield, The New York Poets: An Anthology  (John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara,  Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler), Carcanet Press (2004)

Marjorie Perloff, Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters, University of Chicago Press (1998)

Two Poets Like O’Hara

John James, Collected Poems (Salt, 2002); Ken Bolton, Selected Poems 1975-2010 (Shearsman, 2012)

My Favourite Summary of His Poetry

“Frank O’Hara’s concept of the poem as the chronicle of the creative act that produces it … he talks about himself because it is he who happens to be writing the poem, and in the end it is the poem that materializes as a sort of monumental backdrop against the random ruminations of a poet seemingly caught up in the business of a New York working day or another love affair.”

(John Ashbery, “Introduction”, The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara (Alfred A Knopf, 1972)