Bob Kaufman

Bob Kaufman
Born
Robert Garnell Kaufman

(1925-04-18)April 18, 1925
New Orleans, Louisiana US
DiedJanuary 12, 1986(1986-01-12) (aged 60)
San Francisco, California US
OccupationPoet
Years active1958–1986
SpousesEileen Singe
For the basketball player, see Bob Kauffman.

Robert Garnell Kaufman (April 18, 1925 – January 12, 1986) was an American Beat poet and surrealist as well as a jazz performance artist and satirist. In France, where his poetry had a large following, he was known as the Black American Rimbaud.

In 1959, with poets Allen Ginsberg, John Kelly, A. D. Winans, and William Margolis, he was one of the founders of Beatitude, a poetry magazine, where he worked as an editor.

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