Michael Kelleher
Michael Kelleher is an American poet. He is the author of two collections of poems, Human Scale (BlazeVOX Books, 2007) and To Be Sung (BlazeVOX Books, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared at Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, The Colorado Review, ecopoetics, and many others. He has read his work throughout the U.S. and Canada, and also as part of the Encuentro del Poesia Del Lenguaje in Havana, Cuba, in 2001. With Ammiel Alcalay, he founded OlsonNow, a project devoted to the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson. In 2008, he began a blog project called "Aimless Reading", in which he daily catalogs his personal library in alphabetical order, photographing and writing about each title. He is the former Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center, where in 2007 he founded Babel, an international author lecture series, at which he conducted live, on-stage interviews with authors such as Orhan Pamuk, V.S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie. In 2012, he was appointed the founding Program Director of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University.
External links
- Pearlblossom Highway Kelleher's personal blog and the home of the Aimless Reading Project
- OlsonNow a blog on the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson, edited by Michael Kelleher and Ammiel Alcalay
- Feature: Robert Creeley (1926–2005) edited by Michael Kelleher, with contributions by Amiri Baraka & Susan Howe among others