Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems 50th Anniversary Reading: February 6, 2015

The Poetry Center, together with City Lights Books and The Green Arcade, present a 50th Anniversary reading of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems (City Lights Books Pocket Poets Series, 1964; 50th Anniversary Edition, 2014) at McRoskey Mattress Co., San Francisco. O'Hara's 43 poems from his book are performed in sequence by an array of Bay Area poets and friends.

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McRoskey Mattress Co., San Francisco
Date
02/06/2015
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02:11:23
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Group Reading (02:04:11)

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Patrick Marks welcomes the audience and Steve Dickison introduces the evening. Richard O. Moore opens, remembering Frank O'Hara, followed by City Lights Publisher Elaine Katzenberger reading a statement from Maureen O'Hara. Frank O'Hara's 43 poems from his Lunch Poems are read in sequence by: Kathleen Fraser; Crystal Sasaki and Alana Siegel; Kit Robinson, Steve Dickison, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Hoover, Hilton Obenzinger, Colter Jacobsen, Elaine Katzenberger, Elaine Kahn, Garrett Caples, Alan Bernheimer, David Meltzer, Patrick Marks, Brent Cunningham, Mac McGinnes, George Albon, Norma Cole, Bill Berkson, Stephen Emerson, Alli Warren, Beverly Dahlen, Ted Rees, Gloria Frym, Michael Palmer, Jim Nisbet, Evan Kennedy, C.S. Giscombe, Cedar Sigo, Susan Gevirtz, Duncan McNaughton, Matt Gonzalez, Brandon Brown; Jason Morris, Micah Ballard, and Patrick Dunagan; Jackson Meazle, Ronaldo Wilson, and Tinker Greene.

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