Eileen Kaufman née Eileen Singe (1922–2015) was an American poet and journalist. She served in the United States Navy during World War II. In 1958 she married the Beat poet Bob Kaufman (1925–1986). It was her second marriage. She helped her husband establish the literary magazine Beatitudes. She also worked as an editor on the magazine. Kaufman also wrote down Bob Kaufman's spoken verse and assembled the poems into the book Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, which was published in 1965 by New Directions Publishing.

The Kaufmans had a troubled marriage with several separations. At one point, Eileen Kaufman moved from New York to San Francisco without her husband and wrote for publications including the Los Angeles Free Press and Billboard magazine, covering music.

Eileen Kaufman

Portions of Kaufman's unpublished autobiography appeared in the book Women of the Beat Generation edited by Brenda Knight.

Eileen Kaufman

References

Further reading

Beatitude Poetry, introduction by Eileen Kaufman

1922 births

2015 deaths

American women writers

Beat Generation poets

American women poets

American women journalists

United States Navy personnel of World War II

American magazine editors

Place of birth missing

Place of death missing

Eileen Kaufman