Michael Kelleher
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Michael Kelleher is an American poet. He is the author of two collections of poems, Human Scale (BlazeVOX Books, 2007) and To Be Sung (BlazeVOX Books, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared at The Poetry Foundation Website, Jacket, ecopoetics, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Brooklyn Rail, The Buffalo News, Slope, and others, and he has read his work in the U.S., Canada, and as part of the Encuentro del Poesia Del Lenguaje in Havana, Cuba in 2001. With Ammiel Alcalay
, he edits the 'OlsonNow' blog, which is dedicated to the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson
. Since 2000, he has edited ELEVATOR, an artist's book poetry press, whose projects have included The Box Project (2000), based on the work of eco-installation artist Brian Collier, The Postcard Project (2001) based on the work of French painter/sculptor Isabelle Pellissier, and The Grid Project (2003), based on the work of artist Amy Stalling and her husband, Jonathan Stalling who translates from Chinese. In 2008, he began a blog project called "Aimless Reading," in which he daily catalogs his personal library in alphabetical order, photographing and writing about each title. He lives in Buffalo, NY, where he works as the Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center.
Ammiel Alcalay
Ammiel Alcalay is an American poet, scholar, critic, translator, and prose stylist. Born and raised in Boston, he is a first-generation American, son of Sephardic Jews from São Tomé and Príncipe...
, he edits the 'OlsonNow' blog, which is dedicated to the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson
Charles Olson
Charles Olson , was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance...
. Since 2000, he has edited ELEVATOR, an artist's book poetry press, whose projects have included The Box Project (2000), based on the work of eco-installation artist Brian Collier, The Postcard Project (2001) based on the work of French painter/sculptor Isabelle Pellissier, and The Grid Project (2003), based on the work of artist Amy Stalling and her husband, Jonathan Stalling who translates from Chinese. In 2008, he began a blog project called "Aimless Reading," in which he daily catalogs his personal library in alphabetical order, photographing and writing about each title. He lives in Buffalo, NY, where he works as the Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center.
External links
- Pearl Blossom Highway Kelleher's personal blog and the home of the Aimless Reading Project
- OlsonNow a blog on the poetry and poetics of Charles OlsonCharles OlsonCharles Olson , was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance...
, edited by Michael Kelleher and Ammiel AlcalayAmmiel AlcalayAmmiel Alcalay is an American poet, scholar, critic, translator, and prose stylist. Born and raised in Boston, he is a first-generation American, son of Sephardic Jews from São Tomé and Príncipe... - http://jacketmagazine.com/31/index.shtmlFeature: Robert CreeleyRobert CreeleyRobert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...
(1926–2005)] edited by Michael Kelleher, with contributions by Amiri BarakaAmiri BarakaAmiri Baraka , formerly known as LeRoi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism...
& Susan HoweSusan HoweSusan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre...
among others