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Claudia Keelan (b. 1959) is an American poet, writer, and professor. She received the Regents’ Creative Activities Award, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.[1]
Lifeedit
Claudia Keelan is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently We Step into the Sea: New and Selected Poems (Barrow Street, 2018).[2] Her book of translations Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz, from Omnidawn Press appeared in 2016.[3]Ecstatic Emigre was published in the Poets on Poetry Series from University of Michigan Press in 2018.[4]
Widely anthologized, Keelan was described by the late Robert Creeley as a poet who "keeps the faith for us all" (book cover endorsement of Utopic).
She is the editor of Interim, a print and on line journal specializing in poetry, translation, belle lettres and book reviews (www.interimpoetics.com) as well as the editor for The Test Site Poetry Series (University of Nevada Press). She lives in Las Vegas where she is a Barrick Distinguished Scholar.[5]
In 2017, she was part of a literary delegation to Cuba.[6]
1990 Jesse Stuart Award for excellence in teaching
Referencesedit
^"From the Sociology of Medicine to the Songs of the Trobairitz". University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
^Barrow Street | We Step into the Sea: New and Selected Poems by Claudia Keelan
^Omnidawn | Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz by Claudia Keelan
^University of Michigan Press | Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice by Claudia Keelan
^University of Nevada Las Vegas | Faculty Profile | Claudia Keelan
^"UNLV professor taking new US export to Cuba: poetry". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
^"2021 PEN America Literary Awards Given to Top Literary Stars of the Year, Lifelong Luminaries of Literary Excellence". PEN America. 2021-04-08. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
^Shapley, Tracy (2021-02-10). "2021 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists Announced". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
^Friends Newsletter, Sandra Macias, University of Nevada, Reno, (Fall 2001) Archived 2010-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
External linksedit
“Continuous Acts” Poetry Society of America
Apologue (1) poets.org
A Brief Interview with Claudia Keelan Omnidawn
Alice James Books Website
Claudia Keelan Sample Poems: A Domestic Chapter, Antique, My Twentieth Century, Blue Diamond
Range of the Possible: Conversations with Contemporary Poets, Tod Marshall, Eastern Washington University Press, May 2002
Donald Revell & Claudia Keelan - Las Vegas, NV, Poets on Place, December 17, 2003
Claudia Keelan & Alice Notley from A Conversation > The American Poetry Review > May 2004
UNLV Magazine, Summer, 2007
Reading Between A & B: Claudia Keelan - April 30, 2007