Marilyn Kallet's Blog

• Sarah With Slaughter

  November 21, 2008

  • You've probably seen this today.   If not, head's up!  (Sorry, it's really not funny).

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• The Cat Guarding Jim Morrison's Grave

  November 21, 2008

  • A tender-hearted friend who loves cats, and who bears some resemblance to Jim Morrison, just told me that he was prevented from visiting Jim's grave at Pere Lachaise in Paris.

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• "Genius Needs to Tinker in a Collective Shop" (Lewis Hyde)

  November 16, 2008

  • The "collective shop" in which we're tinkering is Red Room, and Lewis Hyde was right.  Writers thrive on the unobstructed circulation of creative ideas.

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• Can a Book Trailer Boost Poetry?

  November 15, 2008

  • I had to let go of my wonderful public relations person, as I will need the money for France this spring.

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• Poem: "Saying Goodbye"

  November 14, 2008

  • Saying Goodbye

     

    We embraced, there in the parking lot

    of the ordinary.

    How could I know your arms were arguing last things?

    Your cheek in my hair.

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• The Touching Intensifies

  November 13, 2008

  • Just as I predicted, right before grades are due the students compliment me more, and want to touch me.

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• Jewish Book Day: The Rapture!

  November 12, 2008

  • Last Sunday at Jewish Book Day, Borders Books in Knoxville, we filled the store with poetry, stories, laughter and tears, and Klezmer music, of course!

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• Devils Live so Near (With Feathers)

  November 10, 2008

  • Right before finals, students become more friendly.  Some undergraduate males behave affectionately, and try to touch me, to pet me.  Sometimes I'm not fast enough to stop it.

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• Poem: "It Can't Happen"

  November 8, 2008

  • It Can't Happen

     

    Not now not ever

    not at your house, your living room,

    your couch, not in the late afternoon

    not while my husband's waiting

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• Race and Risk, Tonight

  November 7, 2008

  • Tonight I'm living dangerously, acting in a readers' version of "Spinning into Butter," directed by Kali Meister.

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• OBAMA!

  November 4, 2008

  • I remember the day Ike beat Stevenson, and how my parents and grandmother cried. "This country needs a President with brains!" Grandma said. I hope she's looking down at this!

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• Arty Porn in the Basement

  November 2, 2008

  • When I went to pick up my book-jacket photos yesterday, I had a shock.  No, I don't mean the photos themselves. They just threw me into a depression.  But let me back up.

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• How Important is the Author's Photo on the Book Jacket?

  November 1, 2008

  • Had an offer from a professional photographer to do a book jacket photo for "Packing Light," the new poems.  I was disappointed by the results.  Tell me what you think.

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• Copyediting the New Book, Tearing Out (Long) Hair

  October 29, 2008

  • I'm getting ready to walk the copyedited manuscript over to the post office, to Fed-X "Packing Light" back to the book designer.  It took me longer than it should have to mark up the pag

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• Poetry and Risk: The Topless Beach Effect

  October 14, 2008

  • Writing poetry is not for the timid or the stodgy.  The best work involves not only craft, but a willingness to be vulnerable.

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