Marilyn Kallet is currently serving her second term as Knoxville Poet Laureate. She has published 18 books, including How Our Bodies Learned, The Love That Moves Me, and Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, Black Widow Press. She has translated Paul Eluard’s Last Love Poems and Benjamin Péret’s The Big Game. Dr. Kallet is Professor Emerita at the University of Tennessee. She mentors poetry groups for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, in Auvillar, France. Her poetry has appeared recently in New Letters and North American Review. Poetry is forthcoming in Plume, Cutthroat, 101 Jewish Poems for the New Millennium, and New Voices, an anthology of contemporary voices confronting antisemitism.

Contact: mkallet@utk.edu
Website: http://marilynkallet.com
City of Knoxville page for Kallet: http://knoxvilletn.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=109562&pageId=13362748