Robert Hass is one of contemporary poetry’s most celebrated and widely-read voices. In addition to his success as a poet, Hass is also recognized as a leading critic and translator, notably of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and Japanese haiku masters Basho, Buson and Issa. Critics celebrate Hass’s own poetry for its clarity of expression, its conciseness, and its imagery, often drawn from everyday life.
Robert Pinsky writes poems that have earned praise for their musical energy and ambitious range. Born to a working class family in Long Branch, New Jersey, in high school he was voted “most musical boy.” The three time U.S. Poet Laureate writes his poems to be spoken, with a focus on the timbre and musicality of the words. His PoemJazz project, in which he “plays” his poetry with jazz musicians, brings a new level of performance to his reading.
The following film is based on Thomas and Beulah, the poetry book by Rita Dove, which was originally published in 1986 by Carnegie-Mellon University Press and awarded the 1987 Pultzer prize. Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2006
Garcia Lorca is one of the more important Spanish poets, he was brutally executed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Most of the works appearing here are translations together with Spanish guitar music inspired by his creations, as well as its influences, some documentary features & notably his visit to the USA, which served not only as a source of inspiration to him but to many of the current & later writers in the USA. Editor Robin Ouzman Hislop.
Francis Russell “Frank” O’Hara was an American writer, poet and art critic. Because of his employment as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O’Hara became prominent in New York City’s art world.
Animals by Frank O'Hara read by A Poetry Channel
Frank O'Hara: Lunch Poems
Song (is it dirty), by Frank O'Hara, Read by David J. Bauman
Willem de Kooning / Frank O'Hara Poems
Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"
Six Poems of Frank O'Hara: Poem
Frank O’Hara reads selected poems
Don Draper Recites Frank O' Hara's Poetry
Having a Coke with Frank O'Hara
USA: Poetry, Frank O'Hara (1966)
Frank O'Hara Reading | Frank O'Hara Poetry | Frank O'Hara Poems
My Heart by Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara reading from Lunch Poems
Meditations In An Emergency // Frank O'Hara
PBS NewsHour: "POEM" by Frank O'Hara
"POEM" by Frank O'Hara (Favorite Poem Project)
ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: On Frank O'Hara – Woodberry Poetry Room
USA: Poetry Episode Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders
Our Life in Poetry: Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara – Mayakovsky poem reading
Morning Poem // Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara: Why I Am Not A Painter
Life, Work, and Lunch: Meditations on Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara: A Step Away From Them
Bibliography:
Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara, edited by Donald Allen, Carcanet 2005;
The Dance of the Intellect, Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition by Marjorie Perloff, Northwestern University Press 1985;
Poetry On & Off the Page by Marjorie Perloff, Northwestern University Press 1998;
The Making of the Reader, Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry by David Trotter, Macmillan 1984;
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara by Brad Gooch, Alfred Knopf 1993;
Some Americans, A Personal Record by Charles Tomlinson, University of California Press 1981 (reprinted by Carcanet in the volume American Essays: Making It New, 2001).
