Frank O'Hara Fire Island Pines Poetry Festival

Frank O'Hara's work has become a continuing touchstone and inspiration for poets and readers for the last sixty years. To pay homage to this great artist the Fire Island Pines Arts Project is proud to present the Frank O'Hara Fire Island Pines Poetry Festival on Saturday, July 12th at 4 PM. The program, moderated by the New York poet, Adam Fitzgerald, will feature a diverse group of local and international poets and writers. This event will memorialize the man and the community where he enjoyed himself immensely, wrote many of his poems and tragically died. O'Hara immortalized his time there in one of his most famous poems, "A True Account of Talking to the Sun on Fire Island." Presenters will read a selected poem of O'Hara's as well as one of their own to mark the occasion. Readers: Kirby Congdon CA Conrad Timothy Donnelly Adam Fitzgerald Saeed Jones Simone Kearney Rickey Laurentiis Dorothea Lasky J.D. McClatchy Paul Muldoon Eileen Myles Zachary Pace Ali Power Ariana Reines Edmund White tickets $10 at FIPAP.org