Award winning poet Marilyn Kallet is available for readings, seminars and workshops on many aspects of contemporary writing. Dr. Kallet was Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville for 17 years, is the author of fourteen books, including poetry, translations, anthologies, and criticism. Recent books include a collection of poetry, Circe, After Hours, published by BkMk Press, University of Missouri - Kansas City, in 2005, The Art of College Teaching: Twenty-eight Takes , co-edited with April Morgan, published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2005 and in 2006 from Black Widow Press a revised and updated edition of Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translated and edited by Marilyn Kallet. Her books released in 2007 are Jack The Healing Cat, a children's book from Tellico Books , Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion, co-edited with Kathryn Stripling Byer, from Helicon Nine Editions , Kansas City. Forthcoming in January 2009 from Black Widow Press is Packing Light: New & Selected Poems. Dr. Kallet is a Lindsay Young Professor of English at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
For information regarding scheduling an appearance by Dr. Kallet, contact info@marilynkallet.com
The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion , listed as the number one choice on the top 100 books of 2007 by The Kansas City Star.
Jack The Healing Cat is also available from Amazon.com
Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translated and edited by Marilyn Kallet
Circe, After Hours, listed as one of The Kansas City Star's Best Poetry Picks of 2005.
One for Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes or order a copy of this book as part of The Chanukah Gift Box from Zingerman's in Ann Arbor
How To Get Heat Without Fire from amazon.com or order How To Get Heat Without Fire by printing out the order form and mailing it with your check or money order.
Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers
Sleeping With One Eye Open:Women Writers and the Art of Survival from amazon.com
New Letters on the Air Interview with Marilyn Kallet (Interview #101205, aired on NPR on October 12, 2005), conducted by Michelle Boisseau, discussing Circe, After Hours
Songs in Transit: An American Expedition
by soprano Melanie Mitrano, 2006, features four of Marilyn Kallet's poems set to music by Tom Cipullo
Summary Bibliography
Southern Artistry
Marilyn's Page at Red Room Writer Site
Marilyn's Blog at Red Room Writer Site
Interview of Marilyn Kallet by Kim Baise of Bee's Knees Books on Jack the Healing Cat and writing for children
Interview of Marilyn Kallet by Elizabeth Smith of BkMk Press on Circe, After Hours
Knoxville Writer's Guild profile
ArtBarge Poetry Deck excerpt of Moistening Our Roots with Music: Creative Power in Denise Leverton's "A Tree Telling of Orpheus"
Yom Kippur Remembrance, September 27, 2001 from Focus 9/11: Poems Part II of PoetsUSA.com
Benefit Readers Series information to book Marilyn Kallet from the Associated Writing Programs
Excerpt from American Book review March/April 2003 review of the volcano sequence by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Torn Spirits, article by Marilyn Kallet in Tennessee Alumnus Magazine 2004, including two poems
Knoxville News Sentinel article "Knox poet leaves you seeing light" by Ina Hughs, published March 20, 2005
Brief Biography and Partial Bibliography from UTC
Tennessee Arts Commission Literary Fellowship in Poetry, 1989; Literary Panel Advisory Board Member, Tennessee Arts Commission, 1988-90; Board of Directors, Tennessee Writers Alliance, 1991-1996; Secretary, Tennessee Writers Alliance, 1994-1996; Board of Directors, UT Press, 1993-95; Board of Directors, Tennessee Studies in Literature, 1994--; Board of Directors, Knoxville Writers' Guild, 1995 -1998; College of Arts & Sciences Public Service Award, 1994; UT Alumni Public Service Award, 1995; National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, 2000; Elected to the East Tennessee Literary Hall of Fame, 2005; UTK Chancellor's Outreach Award, 2007.
This is an "official" site in that this page was constructed with the assistance and active collaboration of the poet, Marilyn Kallet. The website "author" is Louis Gross <info@marilynkallet.com>.
© 2004 Marilyn Kallet and Louis Gross.