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

Other Works

  • Ecstatic Émigré (University of Michigan Press, 2018)

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

  1. ↑ Friends Newsletter, Sandra Macias, University of Nevada, Reno, (Fall 2001) Archived 2010-06-06 at the Wayback Machine.
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