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5 unusual facts about Paul Blackburn


Cantar de Mio Cid

Paul Blackburn, Poem of the Cid: a modern translation with notes, 1966.

Milton Kessler

Kessler had a brief bout with thyroid cancer, an affliction he shared with poet Paul Blackburn.

Poetry Project

The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 in the East Village of Manhattan by the poet and translator Paul Blackburn, it has been a crucial venue for new and experimental poetries for over four decades.

Housed in the historic St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, the grounds are the site of historic memorials to poets Paul Blackburn, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Scholnick, W.H. Auden, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, and others.

Vũng Rô Bay Incident

The United States Seventh Fleet commander, Vice Admiral Paul Blackburn, observed that the Vung Ro find was “proof positive.” Blackburn and General William Westmoreland called for a major U.S.-Vietnamese anti-infiltration patrol operation.


Richard Blevins

He has written a dozen articles (on Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, George Oppen, Penelope Fitzgerald, Louis Zukofsky, Kenneth Patchen, Paul Blackburn, Robert Kelly, among others) for encyclopedias (DLB, Encyclopedia of American Literature, Encyclopedia of World Literature, and The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia), and many essays and reviews for journals, especially Sagetrieb.


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