Brian Glavey [https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/english_language_and_literature/our_people/directory/glavey_brian.php] joins Close Readings to talk about one of the great love poems of the twentieth century, Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke with You [https://poets.org/poem/having-coke-you]." Check out Brian's recent article [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/abs/having-a-coke-with-you-is-even-more-fun-than-ideology-critique/F3CA5E6B514DF91973A508DD5707F73A#] on the poem in PMLA and his first book, The Wallflower Avant-Garde [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-wallflower-avant-garde-9780190202651?cc=us&lang=en&] (Oxford UP, 2016). Follow Brian on Twitter here [https://twitter.com/BrianGlavey]. 

You can watch and listen to O'Hara read the poem here [https://youtu.be/YDLwivcpFe8] and find the full episode of the television series from which that clip was excerpted, Richard O. Moore's USA: Poetry, on the PennSound website [https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Moore.php].

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Brian Glavey on Frank O'Hara ("Having a Coke with You")

One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest has loved. You'll have a chance to see the poem from the expert's perspective—and also to think about some big questions: How do poems work? What can they make happen? How might they change our lives?