Sargon Boulus was an Iraqi-Assyrian poet and short story writer. Born in 1944, he died on 22 October 2007.[1] He was born in Habbaniyah, Iraq. In 1967, he immigrated to Beirut, where he worked as a journalist and a translator. He later emigrated to the United States, and from 1968 lived in San Francisco. He studied comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley, and sculpture at Skyline College. An avant-garde and thoroughly modern writer, his poetry has been published in major Arab magazines and has translated W. S. Merwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and others.

Sargon started publishing poems and short stories as a teenager in various Iraqi journals and magazines, and started to translate American and British poetry into Arabic. As he became recognized among his peers, he eventually sent his poetry to Beirut where they were published in the prominent publication Shi'r ("Poetry"). Through many tribulations, Sargon traveled by land and mostly by foot from Baghdad to Beirut where he met his lifelong colleagues and fellow poets. He later made San Francisco his base for almost four decades. He lived a quiet life of an artist, writing poetry and sometimes painting.