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July 17, 1959: Billie Holiday dies and soon after Frank O’Hara pens one of his most beloved poems - an intersection of elegy and love letter - “The Day Lady Died.” Co-produced by the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) and in partnership with The American Poetry Review, Azuka is creating a new work based on this poem, the character of this extraordinary man, and his love for the music of Billie Holiday.


“…regardless of emphasis, it’s always this sense of boundless potential, of excitement, of irrepressible restlessness, that dominates O’Hara’s poetry; the extraordinary immediacy of a voice that seems clearer now than ever before.” – The Guardian

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