Marilyn Kallet Speaks at KWG Meeting on How to Perform Poetry
Award-winning poet Marilyn Kallet will highlight National Poetry Month
with an interactive celebration of her own poetry and that of University
of Tennessee poets Josh Robbins and Darren Jackson at the April 2 meeting
of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild.
The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the Laurel Theater at the corner of
Laurel Avenue and 16th Streets in Forth Sanders and is open to the public.
Refreshments are served, and a $1 donation is requested at the door. The
building is handicapped accessible.
Kallet will read from her new book, "Packing Light—New and Selected Poems"
(Black Widow Press, 2009), which combines new and collected poems from her
other books and publications over 35 years to create a comprehensive
overview of her work. It is a mixture of the humorous, serious, and erotic
and includes some of her acclaimed and powerful Holocaust poems. Many of
these grew out of a trip Kallet made to Eastern Europe with her daughter
Heather in search of the graves and stories of relatives lost in Hitler's
slaughter of the Jews.
“In addition to the performance, there will be a dialogue about
performance, and about craft,” Kallet said. “We’ll hear a cluster of
poems and then discuss the process of shaping the poems and the
performance aspects. I'll offer performance suggestions to writers in the
audience who hope to take their work to a wider group of listeners.”
Opening the show will be poets Joshua Robbins and Darren Jackson, who
Kallet calls “two of the finest new young voices in American poetry.”
Robbins is poetry editor for Grist: The Journal for Writers. The winner
of the 2009 James Wright Poetry Award, his recent work has appeared or is
forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review,
CutBank and Writing by Ear. His blog, Little Epic Against Oblivion,
chronicles the adventures of American poetry at its finest. Jackson’s
poems have been published in Terrain, Pivot, Smartish Pace, and Cimarron
Review, among others. Both are doctoral students at UT in creative
writing/poetry.
Marilyn Kallet has won the Tennessee Arts Commission Literary Fellowship
in poetry, and was inducted into the East Tennessee Literary Hall of Fame
in poetry in 2005. She holds a Lindsay Young Professorship in English at
UT, where she directed the creative writing program for 17 years.
She has performed her poetry in Warsaw and Krakow, as a guest of the U.S.
Embassy's "America Presents" program, and in France, where she teaches
poetry workshops for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in
Auvillar.
The Knoxville Writers’ Guild offers monthly meetings, writers’ groups and
periodic workshops for local writers. It receives the support of WUOT 91.9
FM. Visit www.knoxvillewritersguild.org.
For more information, please contact:
Kelly Norrell
Publicity Chair
The Knoxville Writers' Guild
806-0132
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