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Marilyn Kallet

Selected Publications

  • Circe, After Hours (BkMk Press, University of Missouri/Kansas City), 2005
  • The Art of College Teaching: 28 Takes, co-edited with April Morgan (University of Tenn. Press), 2005
  • One For Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes (Celtic Cat Publishing, 2004)
  • Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival, co-edited with Judith Ortiz Cofer (University of Georgia Press, 1999)
  • Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers, co-edited with Patricia Clark (Blair Press/Prentice Hall, 1996)
  • How To Get Heat Without Fire (New Messenger/New Millennium Writings, 1996)
  • ed., A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry (University of Tennessee Press, 1993)
  • Honest Simplicity in William Carlos Williams' "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" (Louisiana State University Press, 1985)
  • In the Great Night (Ithaca House, 1981)
  • trans., Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard (Louisiana State University Press, 1980); Devils Live So Near (Ithaca House, 1977).

Representative articles

  • “Love Letter from a Lost World,” on poetry by Jane Mayhall, American Book Review, 26:1 (2004), 28
  • “Cackling Wake-Up Calls,” on The Poets Grimm, eds. J.M. Beaumont and C. Carlson Jeanne, American Book Review, 25:3 (2004): 21
  • “Author Sue Grafton Inspires Writers at UT,” Tennessee Alumnus (2003): 24-25
  • “Living With Creative Fire: The Volcano Sequence by Alicia Ostriker,” American Book Review, 24:3 (2003): 17
  • “Poems That Earn Our Trust,´on poetry by Judy Rowe Michels, American Book Review 23.4 (2002), 26
  • "Poetry is a Human Art: A Conversation with Lucille Clifton," New Millennium Writings 3:2 (1998-99), 136-142
  • "This is Who We Are," on poetry by Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Monica Alvi, and Wendy Rose, American Book Review 17.1 (1995), 11
  • "The Art of Not Forgetting: An Interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer," Prairie Schooner 68.4 (1994), 68-75
  • "The Real Work of Grieving--Tess Gallagher's Poetry," American Book Review, 15.3 (1993), 18, 31
  • "In Love and War and Music: An Interview with Joy Harjo," Kenyon Review, XV. 3 (1993), 57-66
  • "Moistening Our Roots With Music: Creative Power in Denise Levertov's Poetry," Twentieth Century Studies in Literature, 38.3 (1992) 305-323
  • "The Arrow's Own Language," on poetry by Joy Harjo and Ray Young Bear, American Book Review, 13:1 (1991), 10-11
  • "Illuminating Kinship," Belles Lettres, 6:1 (1990), 31
  • "The Silence Then and Now: The Poetry of May Sarton," Before Columbus Review, 1:3&4 (1990), 18-21
  • "Conversation as Design in William Carlos Williams' 'Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,'" in William Carlos Williams: Man and Poet (Orono: University of Maine Press, 1983), 323-43.

Personal essays

  • “A Healing Journey,” Tennessee Alumnus (Fall 2004), 38-40
  • "The One and Only X. J. Kennedy," Paintbrush: A Journal of Poetry and Translation XXV (1998), 139-141
  • "My Short But Happy Reign as a Knoxville Slam Queen," Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 15:2 (1998), 11-13.

Poetry in New Letters; The Greenfield Review; Ironwood; Seneca Review; Primer; The Slow Loris Reader; Tar River Poetry; Carolina Quarterly; Sinister Wisdom; Poets On; Sulfur; Earth's Daughters; Tendril; The Louisville Review; The Croton Review; Confrontation; The Greensboro Review; Sonora Review; Denver Quarterly; Men & Women Together & Alone (The Spirit That Moves Us Press); The Widener Review; Bubbe Meisehs by Shayneh Maidelehs: An Anthology of Poetry by Jewish Granddaughters about Our Grandmothers (Herbooks); Slipstream; Fine China: Twenty Years of Earth's Daughters (Springhouse Editions); Life on the Line: Selections on Words & Healing (Negative Capability Press); Voices from the Valley; The Ledge; Tennessee Poems and Plays; Yemassee; Now & Then; Hawaii Review; International Quarterly; A Tennessee Landscape, People and Places; Home Works (Tennessee Arts Commission); All Around Us: Poems from The Valley; Sport Literate; Always At Home Here: Poems and Insights from Six Tennessee Poets; Prairie Schooner; Asheville Poetry Review; Prosodia; Whole Terrain; Many Mountains Moving: Issue on Spirituality; Connecticut Review; Isotope; The Yahlobusha Review; Potomac Review; Iron Horse Literary Review; Knoxville Bound; Best of Asheville Poetry Review: 1994-2004; Migrants & Stowaways; Literary Lunch.


Associations & Organizations

  • YWCA Oustanding Woman in the Arts, 2000
  • Board of Directors, Knoxville Writers' Guild, 1995 –1998
  • Board of Directors, Tennessee Studies in Literature, 1994--
  • Board of Directors, UT Press, 1993-95
  • Secretary, Tennessee Writers Alliance, 1994-1996
  • Director, Young Writers’ Institute, 1993-
  • Board of Directors, Tennessee Writers Alliance, 1991-1996
  • Tennessee Arts Commission Literary Fellowship in Poetry, 1989
  • Literary Panel Advisory Board Member, Tennessee Arts Commission, 1988-90
  • Editor, New Millenium Writings.

Honors

  • Hodges Chair for Distinguished Teaching, 2003-2006
  • East Tennessee Literary Hall of Fame in Poetry, 2005
  • Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creative Achievement, 2002
  • National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, 2000
  • UT Alumni Public Service Award, 1995
  • College of Arts & Sciences Public Service Award, 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Marilyn Kallet

Contact Information

Marilyn Kallet
Professor
Department of English
212 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6947
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: mkallet@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Jackson College, Tufts University
M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University
Diplôme Supérieur, Cours de Civilisation, The Sorbonne

Research

Comparative Literature,
Creative Writing