One of these late poems, "Song After Making Love" was published in 2008 by Cold Mountain Review at Appalachian State University.
"[2][3][4] Carroll, along with fellow editor Irving Rosenthal, published several of the "Beat" writers in the Autumn 1958 issue, including excerpts of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch.
After its release, reporter Jack Mabley wrote the article "Filthy Writing On the Midway," which appeared in the October 25, 1958 issue of the Chicago Daily News.
Carroll and Rosenthal planned to continue excerpts of Burroughs' Naked Lunch and publish "Old Angel Midnight" by Jack Kerouac in the Winter 1959 issue.
In 1968, he organized poetry readings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, primarily to promote the publications of Big Table Books, started in 1969.
He published two books at this location, The Beaver Dam Road Poems and Straight Poets I Have Known and Loved and his old friend, James Dickey, said that "this body of Paul's work was his finest."