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On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:44:10 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:33:08 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:00:21 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 8:06:27 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 4:07:14 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 10:03:34 AM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> > > > > > "A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island" by Frank O'Hara
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The Sun woke me this morning loud
> > > > > > and clear, saying "Hey! I've been
> > > > > > trying to wake you up for fifteen
> > > > > > minutes. Don't be so rude, you are
> > > > > > only the second poet I've ever chosen
> > > > > > to speak to personally
> > > > > > [...]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-true-account-of-talking-to-sun-at.html
> > > > > Even Frank O, a New York Poet, is probably obscure to the average person on the streets in this day and age.... this would make an interesting poll....
> > > > Yes, Frank "Speed Buggy" O'Hara is fairly obscure to anyone not interested in "Beat" poetry (i.e., heterosexuals).
> > > Your ignorance is showing, Michael Pendragon.
> > >
> > > Frank O'Hara was of the New York School of poetry, not a Beat.
> > The two movements were closely related:
> >
> > https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/safe-in-your-thoughtful-arms-the-radical-friendship-of-frank-ohara-and-allen-ginsberg/
> >
> > And, as Will Donkey would say... that's "close enough."
> >
> > Michael Pendragon
> > "Less we forget....!"
> > -- George "Stink" Sulzbach
> Not very close, O'Hara and Kerouac didn't get along very well.

If you had looked at the link I'd posted, you would have seen that O'Hara and Ginsberg were besties.