Meditations in an Emergency is a collection of poems by Frank O'Hara published by Grove Press in 1957. The poems, including the title poem, are written in O'Hara's characteristically breezy, conversational style.
Poems in Meditations in an Emergency include:
To the Harbormaster "Poem: 'The Eager Note on My Door...'" "To the Film Industry in Crisis" "Poem: 'At Night the Chinamen Jump'" "On Rachmaninoff's Birthday" "Meditations in an Emergency" "On Seeing Larry Rivers' 'Washington Crossing the Deleware' at the Museum of Modern Art" "Mayakovsky"