Frank O'Hara Archives - Shelter Island Reporter

Bliss Morehead was an advertising executive, a city-loving, urban creature with a BA in English from Barnard when her fiancé Mike Zisser coaxed her onto a ferry bound for Shelter Island in 1981. She remembers asking, “Why would I want to go live on an Island?”

This is what English majors call a rhetorical question. (more…)

2Rs4Fun, Asbury Park High School, Beaumont-Bennett, Bliss Morehead, Frank O'Hara, Gould Morehead, he New York School, Mike Zisser, the Shelter Island Library, the Shelter Island Poetry Project, Warren Wilson College, Young & Rubicam

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04/05/18 8:00am

All-time favorite from the Poetry Project archives reprised for April 13

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JULIE LANE PHOTO

Friday Night Dialogues at the Library and the Shelter Island Poetry Project will present a special encore of “Friends of Frank: Frank O’Hara and the Poets of the New York School” on April 13 at 7 p.m. (more…)

Frank O'Hara, Poetry Project, Shelter Island, Shelter Island Library

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07/10/14 4:30pm

‘Friends of Frank’ poetry reading at library on July 18

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COURTESY PHOTO | One of the few photos — intentionally blurry — of Frank O’Hara and his friends.

Friday Night Dialogues at the Library and the Shelter Island Poetry Project will present “Friends of Frank: Frank O’Hara and the Poets of the New York School” on July 18 at 7 p.m. (more…)

Cedar Tavern, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, John Ashberry, Kenneth Koch, Poets of the New York School, San Remo Bar, Shelter Island Poetry Project

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