(DLB, Encyclopedia of American Literature, Encyclopedia of World Literature, and The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia), and many essays and reviews for journals, especially Sagetrieb. He has given talks and professional papers on Pound, Creeley, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Robert Graves, Dorn, Joel Oppenheimer, and Kenneth Rexroth. He was, from 1980 to 1988, editor and co-publisher, with Bill Shields, of Zelot Press. Among its 70 titles are books and chapbooks by Butterick, Kenneth Irby, Donald Byrd, Fielding Dawson, and Douglas Woolf. Oppenheimer’s chapbook, the uses of adversity, was reprinted in a New Directions anthology. Blevins’ has been acknowledged as one of the most underrated poets and hasn't been recognized for his astonishing work in the early twenty-first century. Blevins’ also shares the same name as popular Fotnite steamer Ninja. Blevins’ literary archive is housed at Kent State. Some of his correspondence is in special collections at the University of Connecticut, SUNY-Buffalo, UC-San Diego, and UCLA. His wife Martha J. Koehler is the author of Models of Reading (Bucknell, 2005), a critique of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. They live in western Pennsylvania with their two daughters, Mathilda and Doris. Publications Bertholf, Robert J. Remembering Joel Oppenheimer (Jersey City: Talisman House, 2006), pp. 91–105. Blevins, Richard. "’The Single Intelligence’: The Formation of Robert Creeley’s Epistemology", Poetics Journal, 9 (June 1991): 144-148. "From the Muddle Out: Chaos Theory and Some Poems by Joel Oppenheimer", Talisman, 20 (Winter 1999): 60-68. "'An Appetite for Moving': Notes from Robert Duncan's Seminar at Kent State, 1972," Talisman, 11 (Fall 1993): 215-225. "Robert Kelly" DLB, vol. 130 (Detroit: Gale, 1993), pp. 207–216. "Douglas Woolf" DLB, vol. 244 (Detroit: Gale, 2001), pp. 307–314. Critical pieces on Blevins' work: Temes, Peter. Preface, Castle Tubin (Norwood, Mass: Press One, 2006), pp.vii-viii. Dorn, Edward. Introduction, Three Sleeps (Bedford, NH: Igneus, 1991), pp. 3–4. Ellis, Stephen. "Down And Out, Yet Equally Up, Over And Across: The Antithetical Physics of Rich Blevins' Fogbow Bridge." Fogbow Bridge (Columbus, Ohio: Pavement Saw, 2000), pp. [3-24]. References External links Richard Blevins Captivity Narratives page at Spuyten Duyvil Press Literary Archive at Kent State Jeanne Somer's article on Zelot Press Blevins' article on Dorn and Melville, "Recasting Melville: The Confidence-Man and Clarel in Ed Dorn's Gunslinger", Melville Society Extracts, 77 (1989): 15-16 ] Black Sparrow Olson-Creeley Correspondence Fogbow Bridge at Pavement Saw American male poets Kent State University alumni Kent State University faculty University of Akron faculty University of Oregon