Paul Blackburn died 45 years ago today…
…just 44 years old. He had been a major presence in my first years in New York City, as mentor & gentle commentator on my early poems. Here, for the occasion, a poem I wrote a few years later on another 13 September, thinking of Paul, New York and trying to be unusually (for me) O’Hara-ish (published in An American Suite): THE DAY PAUL BLACKBURN DIED for Frank … Read more Paul Blackburn died 45 years ago today…