Marilyn Kallet I'm a poet and children's book author, translator and essayist.

photo credit: April Morgan

Author Biography

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.
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Influences

Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, Brenda Hillman, Robert Hass, Galway Kinnell, William Carlos Williams, Paul Eluard.

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Marilyn Kallet

Packing Light: New and Selected Poems

This video is a collaboration among artists ( Poet Marilyn Kallet and Filmmakers Doug Griffey and Niles Thomas Maddox of Doomed* Productions ) intended to showcase "Packing Light: New and Selected Poems" by Marilyn Kallet. Published by Black Widow Press, 2009. We hope that the video can be a door into one aspect of Marilyn's many years of writing and performing.