ALEX GILDZEN

(This feature is part of TRUCK’s Theme Issue on the List or Catalog Poem. You can go HERE for an Index of the Participating Poets.)

FRANK O'HARA

(lines from "Alex in Movieland")

1963

attends party at Lita Hornick's with Frank O'Hara   Paul Blackburn    Kenneth Brown   Stuart Byron & Alice Neel  

1966

discusses Frank O'Hara with Grace Hartigan during a party in Howard P. Vincent's Harpoon Hall

1971

visits place where Frank O'Hara was struck down

1972

stays with Morris Golde at his Water Island retreat where Frank O'Hara was visiting at time of his death exactly 7 years earlier

1975

views their Joe Brainard/Frank O’Hara collages when James Bridges introduces him to Jack Larson in their Frank Lloyd Wright house

1977

lunches at Yank Sing with James Broughton & Joel Singer before Broughton introduces him to Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights where he purchases Frank O’Hara’s Early Writing & Poems Retrieved

1980

purchases Homage to Frank O’Hara

1991

invokes memory of Frank O’Hara over dinner at home of Maggie Anderson & Anna French

2001

hears Joan La Barbara sing an endless setting of 2 lines of Frank O’Hara

2003

reads Frank O’Hara’s “Rhapsody” to John Ericson while the actor holds the Century Dimes

2005

reads Frank O’Hara’s “Steps” on Greta Garbo’s 100^th birthday

2010

discusses Frank O’Hara’s poem abt her mother with Cheryl Crane in the Blossom Room at Hollywood Roosevelt

2014

watches premiere of “Looking” which references Frank O’Hara