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Frank Lima (1939-2013) - born in Spanish Harlem, New York City, Lima lived in Long Island, New York. As a poet he most closely associated with the 'New York School'. As a classically trained French chef, he was an assistant chef at the White House during the John Fitzgerald Kennedy administration.

Born in New York City’s Spanish Harlem, poet Frank Lima earned an MFA from Columbia University. Lima’s poetry collections include Inventory (1964) , Underground with the Oriole (1971) , Angel (1976) , Inventory: New & Selected Poems (1997) , and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: Selected Poems (2016) . A classically trained French chef, he taught at the New York Restaurant School and also led workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church.