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Name
  
Claudia Keelan

Role
  
Poet


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Books
  
O - Heart, Utopic, Missing Her, The devotion field, The secularist

Education
  
Humboldt State University

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Claudia Keelan is an American poet, writer, and professor.

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Life

Claudia Keelan is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently "O, Heart" (Barrow Street, 2014) and a book of translations "Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz" from Omnidawn Press in 2016. A column on poetry and practice "Ecstatic Emigre" appeared in the American Poetry Review from 2011-2014. 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.interim.squarespace.com). She lives in Las Vegas where she is a Barrick Distinguished Scholar.

Honors and awards

  • 2015 Barrick Distinguished Scholar
  • 2010 Creative Achievement Award
  • 2007 Jerome Shestack Award, The American Poetry Review
  • 2001 Silver Pen Award
  • 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award, Alice James Books for Utopic
  • 1993 Robert D. Richardson Best Essay award for "Revising the Parade: Against the Poetry of Witness," Denver Quarterly
  • 1997 ''The Secularist nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
  • 1992 grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women
  • 1991 fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
  • 1990 Jesse Stuart Award for excellence in teaching

    • References

    Claudia Keelan Wikipedia
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