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Robert Kelly is an American poet

Poetry of the United States

American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies...

associated with the deep image

Deep image

Deep image is a term coined by U.S. poets Jerome Rothenberg and Robert Kelly in the second issue of Trobar in 1961. They used it to describe poetry written by them and by Diane Wakoski and Clayton Eshleman....

group.

Early life and education

Kelly was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Samuel Jason and Margaret Rose Kelly née Kane, in 1935. He did his undergraduate studies at the City College of the City University of New York

City University of New York

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, graduating in 1955. He then spent three years at Columbia University

Columbia University

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Teaching career

Kelly has worked as a translator and teacher, most notably at Bard College

Bard College

Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...

, where he has worked since 1961. Kelly's other teaching positions have included Wagner College

Wagner College

Wagner College is a private, co-educational, national liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 total students located atop Grymes Hill in New York City's borough of Staten Island...

(1960–61), the University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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(1964), and the Tufts University

Tufts University

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Visiting Professor of Modern Poetry (1966–67). In addition, he has served as Poet in Residence at the California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

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(1971–72), Yale University

Yale University

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(Calhoun College), University of Kansas

University of Kansas

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, Dickinson College

Dickinson College

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, and the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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Writing career

The Black Mountain poetics

Black Mountain poets

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of Robert Duncan

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and Charles Olson

Charles Olson

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had a decisive influence on his writing.

Kelly has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 (1995) and a collection of short fictions, A Transparent Tree (1985). Many were published by the Black Sparrow Press. He also edited the anthology A Controversy of Poets (1965). Kelly was of great help to the Hungryalist

Hungry generation

The Hungry Generation was a literary movement in the Bengali language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet i.e. Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury and Debi Roy alias Haradhon Dhara, during the 1960s in Kolkata, India...

group of poets of India during the trial of Malay Roy Choudhury

Malay Roy Choudhury

Malay Roy Choudhury is a Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s. His literary works have been reviewed by sixty critics in HAOWA 49, a quarterly magazine which devoted its January 2001 special issue to Roy Choudhury's life and works...

, with whom he had correspondence, now archived at Kolkata.

Kelly received the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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First Annual Book Award (1980) for Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News and the American Book Award

American Book Award

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, Before Columbus Foundation

Before Columbus Foundation

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(1991) for In Time. He also serves on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions
Conjunctions
Conjunctions, is a biannual American literary journal based at Bard College. It was founded in 1981 and is currently edited by Bradford Morrow....

.

Books of poetry

Armed Descent, New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1961.
Her Body Against Time, Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1963.
Round Dances, New York: Trobar Press, 1964.
Enstasy, Annandale: Matter, 1964.
Lunes/Sightings, with Jerome Rothenberg, New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1964.
Words in Service, New Haven: Robert Lamberton, 1966.
Weeks, Mexico City: Ediciones El Corno Emplumado, 1966.
Song XXIV, Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press, 1966.
Devotions, Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
Twenty Poems, Annandale: Matter Books, 1967.
Axon Dendron Tree, Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
Crooked Bridge Love Society, Annandale: Salitter, 1967.
A Joining: A Sequence for H:D:, Los Angeles:Black Sparrow Press, 1967.
Alpha, Gambier, Ohio: The Pot Hanger Press, 1967.
Finding the Measure, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
Sonnets, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
Songs I-XXX, Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press, 1968.
The Common Shore, (Books 1 - 5) Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
A California Journal, London: Big Venus Books, 1969.
Kali Yuga, London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. A Cape Goliard Book.
Flesh Dream Book, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
In Time, West Newbury: Frontier Press,1971
Cities. West Newbury: Frontier Press, 1972.
Ralegh, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
The Pastorals, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
Reading Her Notes, Uniondale: privately printed at the Salisbury Press, 1972.
The Tears of Edmund Burke, Annandale, privately printed, 1973.
The Mill of Particulars, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
The Loom, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975.
Sixteen Odes, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
The Lady Of, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
The Convections, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
The Book of Persephone, New Paltz: Treacle Press, 1978.
Kill the Messenger, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979.
Sentence, Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1980.
Spiritual Exercises, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981.
The Alchemist to Mercury: an alternate opus, Uncollected Poems 1960-1980, edited by Jed Rasula, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1981.
Mulberry Women, with drypoints by Matt Phillips, Berkeley: Hiersoux, Powers, Thomas,1982.
Under Words, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983.
Thor's Thrush, Oakland: The Coincidence Press, 1984.
Not this Island Music, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987.
The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence, Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1988.
Oahu, Rhinebeck: St Lazaire Press, 1988.
Ariadne, Rhinebeck: St Lazaire Press, 1991.
Manifesto for the Next New York School, Buffalo: Leave Press, 1991.
A Strange Market, (Poems 1985-1988), Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992.
Mont Blanc, a long poem inscribed within Shelleys, Ann Arbor, Otherwind Press, 1994.
Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993, Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press,1995.
Runes, Ann Arbor, Otherwind Press, 1999
The Garden of Distances, with Brigitte Mahlknecht, Vienna / Lana, Editions Procura, 1999
Unquell the Dawn Now : a collaboration with Friedrich Holderlin Schuldt, McPherson, 1999
Shame = Scham : a collaboration with Birgit Kempker, McPherson, 2005
Samphire, Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series Nº 97 , 2006
Threads, First Intensity Press, 2006
May Day, Parsifal Editions, 2006

Plays

Oedipus After Colonus, 2008

The play Oedipus After Colonus takes as its point of departure Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles. Robert Kelly's only play (2008), it was first performed in 2010 under the direction of Crichton Atkinson at the HERE Arts Center in New York City as a part of HEREstay Festival - September, 2010.

In popular culture

The fictional character Senator Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly (comics)

Robert Edward Kelly is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. He most often appears in Marvel's X-Men and X-Men-related comic books. He is a prominent United States Senator who began his career on an anti-mutant platform, and as the X-Men team is made up entirely of mutants, his role...

, featured in the X-Men
X-Men
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comic books and movies, is named after him. X-Men writer Chris Claremont

Chris Claremont

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chose the name in honour of his Bard College professor.

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