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Paul Foreman (born March 15, 1943,near Granbury, Texas, died December 22, 2012, in Austin, Texas) author, publisher (Thorp Springs Press), proprietor of Brazos Book Shop and Bois d’Arc Gallery, 1979-88 (803 Red River, Austin, TX),literary and arts activist, and precious metals prospector, also ran for Congress as a Democrat for the 10th District of Texas. Paul Foreman served in the US Navy (1962-64), as a police offer in Los Angeles (1964-68), and as chairman of the Board of COSMEP (1978-79)(the national organization of small press editors and publishers). He graduated from the University of California in Berkeley in 1969. He was active on the Austin Arts Commission and worked with Susan Bright to establish the Austin Writers League. He helped preserve the home of J. Frank Dobie and supported local writers and artists (including providing office space for the first Austin Visual Arts Association) and to re-establish the Poet Laureate of Texas* with William Barney in 1982.

In 1970 in Berkeley, CA, Paul Foreman began Hyperion, A Poetry Journal with Judy Hogan (see also Carolina Wren Press), after he had helped Josephine Miles publish Berkeley Street Poems during the People’s Park protest. Foreman next developed Thorp Springs Press to publish literature, with an emphasis on poetry, local authors, and writers of the West. Thorp Springs Press was located in Berkeley until 1978 and then in Austin, TX. Foster Robertson (Foster Foreman) served as assistant publisher, co-editor, and art director of Thorp Springs Press. The Harry Ransome Center of the University of Texas at Austin holds the archives of more than 100 Thorp Springs Press books as well as magazines and anthologies edited by Paul Foreman and books written by him. His novels include Sugarland: A Novel of Texas Prisons, and Quanah, the Serpent Eagle. His books of poetry include Redwing Blackbird, Texas Live Oak, The Unknown Law, and Feather River.

http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00038.xml University of Texas, Austin, TX, Harry Ransome Center.

http://www.thomaszigal.com/bio.htm Thomas Zigal BIOGRAPHY tab talks about Paul, Thorp Springs Press and bookstore several paragraphs down.

Judy Hogan,author of this article. Co-editor with Paul Foreman of Hyperion, A Poetry Journal, 1970-81; Founding Editor, Carolina Wren Press, Durham, 1976-91, Author of five books of poetry, two prose works, and Killer Frost, a mystery novel.