Marilyn Kallet (b. 1946)

Biography

Marilyn Kallet was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1946. She grew up in New York and attended school at Jackson College/Tufts University. Kallet received her MA and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines and reviews including New Letters, Now & Then, Denver Quarterly, and International Quarterly. Currently, Kallet is Director of the Creative Writing Program and English professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is the author of eight books, and is a former recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission's Literary Fellowship in Poetry.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

Honest Simplicity in the Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard and William Carlos Williams (master's thesis, Rutgers University, 1978)
Honest Simplicity in William Carlos Williams' "Asphodel, that Greeny Flower" (1985)
A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry (editor, 1993)
Worlds in our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers (editor, with Patricia Clark, 1997)
Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival (editor, with Judith Ortiz Cofer, 1999)

Poetry

Woman with Bangs. Woman with Mango (1975)
Devils Live So Near (1977)
In the Great Night: Poems (1981)
How to Get Heat Without Fire (1996)
Always at Home Here: Poems and Insights from Six Tennessee Poets (with Ernest Lee, Marilou Awiakta, Roy Neil Graves, Richard Jackson, Jeff Daniel Marion, and Judith Odom; 1996)

Translation

Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard (1980)

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