Contact:
mkallet@utk.edu
“Marilyn Kallet’s Circe, After Hours shines with a high intensity light into the underground of ordinary lives, creating bridges between the North and the South. America and Europe, as well as a marriage between the brain’s left and right hemispheres—reason and passion. In this marvelous collection, the process of art illuminates life’s path.”
--Yusef Komunyakaa
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Marilyn
Kallet
"I want you here / so badly my fingertips ache..."
--"I Want You Here" from The Love That Moves Me, due out from Black Widow Press in February, 2013
Marilyn Kallet is the author of fifteen books. Her new book of poems, Packing Light: New & Selected Poems, was released from Black Widow Press in 2009 and The Big Game, a translation of Surrealist poet Benjamin Péret, debuted from Black Widow Press in 2011.
In addition
to poetry, her works include translations, anthologies, personal essays,
criticism and children's books. 
Recent books include:
- Circe, After Hours, poetry published by BkMk Press, University of Missouri - Kansas City, 2005.
- The Art of College Teaching: Twenty-eight Takes , co-edited with April Morgan, published by the University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
- Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translated by Marilyn Kallet, published by Black Widow Press, 2006.
- Jack The Healing Cat and Jacques le chat guérisseur, a children's book in English and French from Celtic Cat Publishing , Knoxville, Tennessee, 2009.
- The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion, co-edited with Kathryn Stripling Byer, from Helicon Nine Editions , Kansas City, 2007.
- Complete list of published works.
Study with Marilyn Kallet: "O Taste and See": Writing the Senses in Deep France", May 14-21, 2012 in Auvillar, France. "Knox Poets Explore Delights of 'Deep France'" published by Knoxville News-Sentinel, August 9, 2009.
“Marilyn
Kallet writes with candor, infectious humor, and verve. Her poems keep
delivering enjoyable jolts that you don’t see coming: try, for
concise examples, ‘No Sale,’ ‘It Can’t Happen,’
and ‘Bodily Harm.’ From start to finish, Circe,
After Hours engages us with some vivid, funny patches
of autobiography and, in the end, moving elegies for Holocaust victims
in the poet’s own family. Kallet is a rewarding poet, willing
to keep a reader regaled, an immensely skilled crafter of fat-free free
verse.”
--X.J. Kennedy
Dr. Kallet is a Professor of English at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also directs the Creative Writing Program. To read updates from Marilyn, visit her on Facebook, read her blog on Red Room.
New Release: The Word Whisperer (Higher Ground: An Online Magazine of the College of Arts and Sciences, March 27, 2012, by Lynn J. Champion)
Where does Kallet get inspiration for her poetry? “Sometimes it falls on my head like pollen,” she says.
But she also has a keen eye for observation of people and her environment and has the ability to connect and identify with people and their emotions. She connects also with her imaginary muses, whom she has playfully named Dante and Beatrice, who commune with her on occasion and offer a rich vein of ideas and inspiration. Read more....
Award winning poet Marilyn Kallet is available for readings, seminars and workshops on many aspects of contemporary writing. Contact.
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