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

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A Taste of France: Marilyn Kallet's Poetry, Truffles, and Bordeaux!

The Love That Moves Me by Marilyn Kallet

Apr.16.2013

A Taste of France: Marilyn Kallet's Poetry, Truffles, and Bordeaux!

This is a poetry performance by Marilyn Kallet from her new book of poems, The Love That Moves Me, Black Widow Press. We will also sample handmade chocolate truffles as well as good bottles of Bordeaux!
Union Ave Books is the only independent bookstore in Knoxville, and a great place to shop for poetry, writers' notebooks, children's books, and much else.
Hope to see you! Allons-y!

Marilyn

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.2009

PACKING LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS

PACKING LIGHT is a compendium of almost 40 years of poetry-writing by Marilyn Kallet. The volume includes one new book of poems, and distillations from each of her previous four books of poems. The collection ranges from humorous to profound, from love poems and erotic poems to poetry about Jewish identity and the Holocaust. The publisher, Black Widow Press,...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2007

The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion

This is a multicultural anthology of contemporary women's writing on the subject of sending our daughters out into their own lives. Selections also include works about saying goodbye to our mothers. This is an upbeat book, about creative separation, from the perspectives of mothers and daughters. 52 authors are included, among them Rita Dove, Jamaica Kincaid, Linda Pastan and...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2006

Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard

This is a new edition of translations of Paul Eluard's Last Love Poems (Derniers poemes d'amour).

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.2005

Circe, After Hours

Circe, After Hours, is a collection of lyric poems with wide range, covering love poems and family, blues and comedy, Jewish identity and Holocaust research.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1999

Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival (Kallet and Cofer, eds.)

This is a collection of original essays by well-known women writers in every genre, about how to get past obstacles in your writing. It is geared especially to women writers, but men seeking inspiration for the creative process will also benefit. Authors include Denise Levertov, Tillie Olsen, Amy LIng, now deceased, as well as Hilda Raz, Aleida Rodriguez, Marilyn...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.18.2013

The Love That Moves Me

Marilyn Kallet's The Love That Moves Me is a collection of love poems inspired by Dante's Inferno, as well as by Rimbaud's relationship with Verlaine, and by Orpheus and Eurydice. These days Beatrice and Dante find themselves in France, Indiana, and in East Tennessee, bickering at Nascar. Love is the unifying factor, song is the vehicle, descent is a constant, with re-...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2007

Jack the Healing Cat

Jack The Healing Cat is a full-color, illustrated children's book. A little girl named Heather finds Jack abandoned in a box. She rescues him, bringing him home to her family. Later, when Heather gets sick, Jack senses the trouble and rushes to her rescue with his special "kitty powers."

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PUBLISHED: Sep.15.2005

The Art of College Teaching: 28 Takes

A collection of essays by a variety of teachers -- from professors to a golf instructor -- about the craft of teaching.

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2003

One For Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes

The book features a short story and a recipe for every night of Chanukah.

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PUBLISHED: Aug.11.1996

Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers (Kallet and Clark, eds.)

This is a multicultural anthology of contemporary American women writers, with interviews you won't find elsewhere.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1985

A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry

This is a collection of essays by well-known poets on May Sarton's poetry. Unique essays by William Stafford, Linda Pastan, Richard Chess, among others. The book includes photos of early drafts of May Sarton's poetry, and previously unpublished translations from French poetry by Sarton. Edited by Marilyn Kallet

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The Big Game, by Benjamin Péret. Trans, with an introduction, by Marilyn Kallet

PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2011

The Big Game, by Benjamin Péret, Translated, with an Introduction by Marilyn Kallet

This is the first English translation of Surrealist Benjamin Péret's key book of poems, The Big Game (1921). Kallet's introduction places Péret in the context of modern poetry, and renders his poems into lyrical, witty, idiomatic English.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.01.1996

How to Get Heat Without Fire

This book of love poems is daring, bluesy, sometimes erotic, funny, and elegaic.

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Marilyn's Latest Blogs

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Apr.25.2013 - 6:51 pm

Last Class

Today was the last class for Dreamworks, a workshop I teach on writing from dreams. Have taught this since 1985. There tends to be more...

Apr.13.2013 - 3:57 pm

Rehearsing Poems for Performance

Monday night at UT, my home university, I'll be performing poems from my new book, The Love That Moves Me (Black Widow Press). My friend and...

Apr.01.2013 - 6:14 pm

If I Were Toni Morrison...

Frustrated with Amazon (they took a month to post the photo of my book cover, The Love That Moves Me, then they listed the new book as "temporarily out of stock" for a month), I...

Mar.16.2013 - 4:53 pm

How to Run a Poetry Reading: Thank you New South and Georgia State!

Reading at Georgia State University, hosted by New South.

Usually I'm the one who hosts visiting writers and worries over the details. But Thursday night I was on the other end of the experience––I...

Comments from Marilyn

Dec.12.2012 - 8:00 pm

In response to: Why bad reviews are good for you.

Thoughtful Negativity

You are so much more enlightened than I am, Terence! And Stephanie is positively other-...

Nov.18.2012 - 7:20 pm

In response to: Learning a Language, Surreal

Translating, thinking in two languages--

Thanks for your graceful thoughts, David! Yes, it's a challenge and a necessity. I teach in France each May...

Oct.03.2012 - 7:15 pm

In response to: No, I Don't Feel Like A Fish Seller!

Right back at you, Sue!

Your encouragement of women writers is unfailing and very much appreciated! Sisterhood is still powerful--

Oct.03.2012 - 4:59 pm

In response to: No, I Don't Feel Like A Fish Seller!

Mazel Tov!

Congrats on this new forthcoming book! Wonderful news! And your contribution to children who are in need is...

Aug.26.2012 - 4:30 pm

In response to: Why We Kvetch About School

Love it! Thanks, Sue!

From your mouth to God's ear, as my grandmother used to say! Tomorrow is the first day of student poetry. I...

Writing

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Poem: "Bad Sex"

Poem: "Confined" (new poem from "Eating the New Species" series)

Poem: "Circe, Did You?"

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Apr.08.2013

The Love That Moves Me

Published by http://www.chapter16.org/

"Marilyn Kallet’s new collection of wry, mostly romantic poems, The Love That Moves Me, takes its title from a line in Dante: “Amor mi mosse, che mi fa parlare” (“The love that...

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Image Gallery: Poster Art for Poetry Readings: Marilyn Kallet, The Love That Moves Me

Image Gallery: The Love That Moves Me

Image Gallery: The Big Game

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."”

—William Blake

About Marilyn

Marilyn Kallet was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up in New York. She is the author of 16 books, including The Love That Moves Me (poetry); Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, Black Widow Press; Circe, After Hours, poetry from BkMk Press; The...

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