Gene Frumkin

He first took up poetry seriously while enrolled in an adult education class taught by the poet Thomas McGrath.

At the University Frumkin edited the Blue Mesa Review and taught a number of poets, including Gloria Frym, Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz and Leslie Marmon Silko.

[4] In 1967, he was among more than five hundred writers and editors who signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to pay the 10% Vietnam War Tax surcharge proposed by president Johnson.

[4] Frumkin's poetry appeared in Chelsea, Conjunctions, Evergreen Review, Kayak, New Letters, The Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, Sulfur, and many other literary magazines, and in anthologies ranging from Robert Bly's Forty Poems Touching on Recent American History (1970) to The Best American Poetry 2002, edited by Robert Creeley.

Frumkin's papers are held in the Center for Southwest Research at UNM's Zimmerman Library.