Aaron Simon’s poem-response to O’Hara’s urban mode

Aaron Simon’s poem “McCoppin Hub” is a response to Frank O’Hara’s present-tense walking-the-city mode from the point of view of someone politically passionate about the planned destruction of a “people’s park.”

We have now added this new video to the O’Hara section of ModPoPLUS week 7 (on the New York School). The O’Hara links in the syllabus now look like this (see Simon material at 1.7 and 1.8):

PART ONE: FRANK O’HARA

1.1 watch discussion of spontaneity in Frank O’Hara as distinct from that quality in Kerouac: LINK TO VIDEO (LINK TO YOUTUBE)

1.2 read Frank O’Hara’s “Why I Am Not a Painter”: LINK TO TEXT

1.3 watch discussion of O’Hara’s “Why I Am Not a Painter”: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.4 watch ModPo TA Jason Zuzga read 2 poems in homage to (& in the mode of) Frank O’Hara: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY]

1.5 read Frank O’Hara’s “Poem” (“Khrushchev is coming on the right day!”): LINK TO TEXT

1.6 watch Al Filreis & Marjorie Perloff discuss O’Hara’s “Khrushchev is coming on the right day!”: LINK TO VIDEO

1.7 read Aaron Simon’s “McCoppin Hub”: LINK TO TEXT

1.8 watch discussion of Simon’s “McCoppin Hub”: LINK TO VIDEO