Karen Kelley, Poet
Kelley lives at 736 Mt View Ave #2, Mt View, CA 94041; her e.mail
address is kkel736@bayarea.net; her phone number is (650) 961-2990
She has had work in the following publications: Sulfur, How(ever), chain, Painted Bride Quarterly, oblek, Paper Air, Tinfish, First Intensity, Central Park, Alterran Poetry
Assemblage, Orpheus Grid and avec. As of early 1998,
she has had one book published: Her Angel (Singing Horse Press). She has been written up in Witz.
She lists Michael Palmer, Leslie Scalapino, Carole Maso, Denis Johnson and Hannah Weiner as contemporary poets important to her, and T.S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce,
Franz Kafka and Mina Loy as writers of yesterday she admires.
Marjorie Perloff and Anna Balakian are the critics she considers important.
Kelley lists collage and chance as her techniques of prefence; her subject matter is "the psychology of inside & outside, the
physical world."
To view an untitled sample poem by Kelley, click here.
To view a poem by Mina Loy that Kelley admires, click here.
Feel free to e.mail a comment on either to Kelley. |