Frank Lima (poet)


Frank Lima was an American poet most closely associated with the New York School.

Education

Lima received his MFA from Columbia University where he studied under among others Kenneth Koch and Stanley Kunitz. His published volumes of verse include; Inventory, Underground with the Oriole, Angel, New Poems, Inventory: New & Selected Poems and The Beatitudes.

Career as chef

Lima was also a classically trained chef who taught at the New York Restaurant School and was an assistant chef at the White House during the John Fitzgerald Kennedy administration.

Public presence

Lima was depicted in Wynn Chamberlain's noted diptych "Poets Dressed and Undressed", which portrays the quartet of Joe Brainard, Frank O'Hara, Joe LeSueur and Lima in successive panels, clothed and then naked.

Posthumous Publications