Ned O'Gorman, poet and educator...

Rolling down the grass at Wave Hill, the laughs, the joy ... the happiness and the freedom to be a poet... Ned O'Gorman's poetry earned him Guggenheim Fellowships in 1956 and 1962. He won the Lamont Poetry Award in 1958 for his collection of poems, The Night of the Hammer.

O'Gorman was the literary editor of the Catholic magazine Jubilee from 1962 to 1965. He was appointed by the U.S. State Department to be the American studies specialist in Chile, Argentina and Brazil in 1965. He is the recipient of the Rothko Chapel Award for Commitment to Truth and Freedom.
In 1966 Ned O'Gorman founded his first tuition-free school: the Children's Storefront; and he later founded, in 1998, the Ricardo O'Gorman Garden and Center for Resources in the Humanities. The "Garden" is located on West 129th Street in Harlem and promotes learning, spiritual growth, imagination and self-confidence in preschool children of all races, ages 2 ½ to 5. One of the Garden's key goal is to prepare Harlem pre-school children for entry into public school, or placement on a partial or full-scholarship basis in independent schools in New York City and State.
to learn more... www.ogormangarden.org

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