John Ashbery, excerpts from “A Reminiscence” from Homage to Frank O’Hara, edited by Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur (Big Sky, 1978). Copyright © 1978, 2004 by John Ashbery. Excerpts from letters to Frank O’Hara. Copyright © 1993, 2014. All used by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author. All rights reserved. Excerpt from “Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers” from Some Trees. Later in Selected Poems. Copyright © 1956, 1985, 1997, 2008 by John Ashbery. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the author and Carcanet Press Ltd. All rights reserved.
W. H. Auden, excerpt from a letter to Frank O’Hara (June 3, 1955). Copyright © 1993 by The Estate of W. H. Auden. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Cecil Beaton, excerpt from a letter to Frank O’Hara (December 29, 1954). Copyright © The Literary Executors of the late Sir Cecil Beaton. Reprinted by permission of Hugo Vickers, Literary Executor, Cecil Beaton Estate.
Bill Berkson, excerpts from letters to Brad Gooch for September 9, 1988 and October 4, 1988, and excerpt from a letter to John Ashbery (January 27, 1965). Reprinted with the permission of Bill Berkson.
Excerpt from John Ciardi letter to Donald Allen, copyright © The Ciardi Family. Reprinted with the permission of John L. Ciardi on behalf of the Ciardi Family Publishing Trust.
Diane di Prima, excerpt from “For Frank O’Hara: An Elegy” from Selected Poems 1956–1975 (Plainfield, Vermont: North Atlantic Books, 1975). Copyright © 1975 by Diane di Prima. Reprinted with the permission of the author.
Allen Ginsberg, excerpt from “City Midnight Junk Strains” from Collected Poems 1947–1997. Copyright © 2006 by Allen Ginsberg. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Penguin Group (UK) Ltd..
Joe LeSueur, excerpts from “Four Apartments” from Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O’Hara: A Memoir. Copyright © 2003 by The Estate of Joe LeSueur. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC. Excerpts from “Footnotes” (unpublished manuscript), and letters to Frank O’Hara and Brad Gooch. Copyright © by Joe LeSueur. Used by permission of The Wylie Agency, LLC.
Frank O’Hara, excerpts from “Autobiographical Fragments” from Standing Still and Walking in New York, edited by Donald Allen. “A Portrait of James Joyce,” “Beacon Hill,” “For Edward Gorey,” “La Poussiere d’une Fleur Precieuse,” “Morgenmusik,” “Poem [Speeding autos chasing garters],” “Solstice,” “The Fattening Nymph,” and excerpts from “A Journal,” “Lament and Chastisement” from Early Writing. “A Little Travel Diary,” “A Step Away from Them,” “Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul,” “Ave Maria,” “Cambridge,” “For the Chinese New Year & Bill Berkson,” “Galanta,” “Music,” “Naphtha,” “Personal Poem,” “Poem [Khrushchev is coming on the right day!],” “Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!],” “Rhapsody,” “St. Paul and All That,” “Steps,” and “The Day Lady Died” from Lunch Poems. “A Party Full of Friends,” “An Epilogue: To the Players of Try! Try!,” “Epigram for Joe,” “In Gratitude to Masters,” “Lines Across the United States,” “Shelter,” “Song [I’m going to New York!],” “To Bobby,” “To the Meadow,” and “To Violet Lang” from Poems Retrieved. All reprinted with the permission of City Lights Books. Excerpts from “A Terrestrial Cuckoo,” “For Grace, After a Party,” “For James Dean,” “For Janice and Kenneth to Voyage,” “Invincibility,” “Les Etiquettes Jaunes,” “Mayakovsky,” “Meditations in an Emergency,” “On Rachmaninoff’s Birthday,” “Poem [At night Chinamen jump],” “Poem [The eager note on my door said, ‘Call me’],” “Poem [There I could never be a boy],” “Radio,” “River,” “Romanze, or The Music Students,” “Sleeping on the Wing,” “To the Film Industry in Crisis,” and “To the Harbormaster” from Meditations in an Emergency. Copyright © 1957 by Frank O’Hara. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Excerpts from The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara, edited by Donald Allen. Copyright © 1971 by Maureen Granville-Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of Frank O’Hara, copyright renewed 1999 by Maureen O’Hara Granville-Smith and Donald Allen. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.