Ned O'Gorman

Born in New York City in 1929, Ned O'Gorman spent most of his early life in Southport, Connecticut, and Bradford, Vermont. After graduating from Saint Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont, in 1953, he did graduate work at Columbia University. He is the founder the Children's Storefront School in Harlem.

O'Gorman is the author of six books of poetry, Five Seasons of Obsession: New and Selected Poems (Books & Co., September 2001), The Flag the Hawk Flies (1972), The Harvesters' Vase (1968), The Buzzard and the Peacock (1964), Adam Before His Mirror (1961), and The Night of the Hammer, which was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1958.

He is the recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and the Rothko Chapel Award for Commitment to Truth and Freedom.

O'Gorman has taught at Brooklyn College, the New School, and Manhattan College. He lives in New York City.

A Selected Bibliography

Poetry

The Night of the Hammer (1958)
Adam Before the Mirror (1961)
The Harvesters' Vase (1968)
The Flag the Hawk Flies (1972)
Five Seasons of Obsession: New and Selected Poems (2001)

Non-Fiction

The Storefront: A Community of Children on 129th Street and Madison Avenue (1970)
The Wilderness and the Laurel Tree: A Guide for Teachers and Parents on the Observation of Children (1972)
Children Are Dying (1978)