Randy Blasing

Born in Minneapolis and educated at Carleton College and the University of Chicago, Randy Blasing is also the co-translator, from the Turkish, of nine books of Nazim Hikmet's poetry. He has been awarded fellowships by the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work has been widely anthologized, most recently in The POETRY Anthology (1912-2002), and Poetry Daily Essentials (2007). For fifty years he taught English at William & Mary, Pomona College, and the...See more

Born in Minneapolis and educated at Carleton College and the University of Chicago, Randy Blasing is also the co-translator, from the Turkish, of nine books of Nazim Hikmet's poetry. He has been awarded fellowships by the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work has been widely anthologized, most recently in The POETRY Anthology (1912-2002), and Poetry Daily Essentials (2007). For fifty years he taught English at William & Mary, Pomona College, and the Community College of Rhode Island. He lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island in Lincoln. See less