Douglas Blazek

Douglas Blazek: b. December 31, 1941, is a Polish–American poet and editor who published the subversive literary chapbook Ole, through which he brought critical attention to many non–establishment poets, such as Charles Bukowski, and was proprietor of the Open Skull Press. He is one of the founders of the Mimeo Revolution, a literary movement that sprang up concurrently with The Beats. During his sixty–year career, he has published more than fifteen hundred poems. His work has been described as a “course correction” for the culture dedicated to “making poetry dangerous.”