Marilyn Kallet was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up in New York. She is the author of 14 books, including Circe, After Hours, poetry from BkMk Press, and Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translations from Black Widow Press.
The Asheville Poetry Review, founded and edited by Keith Flynn, is a vital, energetic, intercultural review, publishing new writers alongside Baudelaire and Antonin Artaud. The editor is non-stuffy, friendly, a rock star (literally, a rock star). He's open-minded, and loyal to his contributors and friends. A non-academic, he lacks the timidity of those who live in the ivory tower. He's ...
I tell my writer friends that Red Room is a supportive environment (and I have lots of examples from my own life and work), and that the site lets me go into depth in ways that I can't do on Facebook or Twitter. I would not have signed on for those if I hadn't first had a good experience with Red Room. How can we encourage more people to look at the authors' websites? I'd be interested also ...
Just back from France and I'm preparing for my next residency at Red Cinder Creativity Center, on the Big Island of Hawai'i. I'm trying to make the most of my teaching leave, which ends mid-August. So I'm going for a two-week writing residency at a dream house provided for artists and writers, on the southern side of Mauna Loa. It's only 25 dollars a day, food is another 25 dollars for ...