Frankly

Get frankly franking frank with the queens this week--then let's talk about sex, baby!

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 Frank O'Hara wrote "Personism: A Manifesto" that was both manifesto and send-up of manifestos. In it, he advocates for poems that sound like they've got a real person in mind as an audience. In one part of it, he writes, "You just go on your nerve'." You can read the whole manifesto here.

 Read O'Hara's poem "F. (Missive & Walk) I. 53" which appeared in The Paris Review in Summer 1970.

Read  O'Hara's "Pearl Harbor"

Watch the official video for the INXS song "Suicide Blonde" ( which includes the line, "You want to make her suicide blonde") here.

Read Diane Seuss talk about O'Hara in this Adroit Journal interview: "On Frank O'Hara and Marilyn Monroe."

Frank O'Hara's poem "Avenue A" begins "we hardly ever see the moon anymore." Read the whole poem.

Hear Tim Dlugos read "The Nineteenth Century is 183 Years Old"

Read a review of Tim Dlugos's collected poems edited by David Trinidad called A Fast Life.

In the segment "Sex Lives of Poets" we mention the following books/poets:
Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours & Glass, Irony and God
Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman
Megan Fernandes, I Do Everything I'm Told
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Never Be the Horse
Benjamin Garcia, Thrown in the Throat
Allen Ginsberg, Howl
francine j. harris, Play Dead
Tom Healey, What the Right Hand Knows
Brenda Hillman, Loose Sugar
Thylias Moss, Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler
Naomi Shihab Nye, Mint Snowball
Mary Oliver, Thirst
Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon
Kevin Prufer, The Finger Bone & Strange Wood
Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck
Wesley Rothman, Subwoofer