Claudia Keelan
Claudia Keelan is an American poet, writer, and professor.
Life
Claudia Keelan is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently "O, Heart" (Barrow Street, 2014) and a book of translations "Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz" from Omnidawn Press in 2016. A column on poetry and practice "Ecstatic Emigre" appeared in the American Poetry Review from 2011-2014. Widely anthologized, Keelan was described by the late Robert Creeley as a poet who "keeps the faith for us all" (book cover endorsement of Utopic). She is the editor of Interim, a print and on line journal specializing in poetry, translation, belle lettres and book reviews (www.interim.squarespace.com). She lives in Las Vegas where she is a Barrick Distinguished Scholar.
Bibliography
Full-Length Poetry Collections
- O, Heart (Barrow Street, 2014)
- Missing Her (New Issues Press, 2009)
- The Devotion Field (Alice James Books, 2005 - Finalist, 2005 PEN Center USA Award in Poetry)
- Utopic (Alice James Books, 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award)
- The Secularist (University of Georgia, 1997 - Contemporary Poetry Series winner)
- Refinery (Cleveland State University 1994 - Cleveland State University Poetry Prize winner)
Translation
Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz," (Omnidawn, 2015).
Chapbooks'
- Of and among there was a locus(t) (Ahsahta Press, 2003)
Honors and awards
- 2015 Barrick Distinguished Scholar
- 2010 Creative Achievement Award
- 2007 Jerome Shestack Award, The American Poetry Review
- 2001 Silver Pen Award[1]
- 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award, Alice James Books for Utopic
- 1993 Robert D. Richardson Best Essay award for "Revising the Parade: Against the Poetry of Witness," Denver Quarterly
- 1997 ''The Secularist nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
- 1992 grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women
- 1991 fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
- 1990 Jesse Stuart Award for excellence in teaching
References
External links
- http://www.omnidawn.com/products-page/poetry/truth-of-my-songs-poems-of-the-trobairitzclaudia-keelan/#interview
- Alice James Books Website
- Claudia Keelan Sample Poems: A Domestic Chapter, Antique, My Twentieth Century, Blue Diamond
- Range of the Possible: Conversations with Contemporary Poets, Tod Marshall, Eastern Washington University Press, May 2002
- Donald Revell & Claudia Keelan - Las Vegas, NV, Poets on Place, December 17, 2003
- Claudia Keelan & Alice Notley from A Conversation > The American Poetry Review > May 2004
- UNLV Magazine, Summer, 2007
- Reading Between A & B: Claudia Keelan - April 30, 2007