Claudia Keelan (born 1959) is an American poet, writer, and professor. She received the Regents’ Creative Activities Award, at the

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Life

Claudia Keelan is the author of seven collections of

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, most recently ''We Step into the Sea: New and Selected Poems'' (Barrow Street, 2018). Her book of translations ''Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz,'' from Omnidawn Press appeared in 2016. ''Ecstatic Emigre'' was published in the Poets on Poetry Series from

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in 2018. Widely anthologized, Keelan was described by the late

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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

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where she is a Barrick Distinguished Scholar. In 2017, she was part of a literary delegation to

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. She was a judge for the 2021 PEN literary awards.

Bibliography

Full-Length Poetry Collections * ''We Step into the Sea''New and Selected Poems (Barrow Street, 2018) * ''O, Heart'' (Barrow Street, 2014) * ''Missing Her'' ( New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2009) * ''The Devotion Field'' (

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, 2005 - Finalist, 2005

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Award in Poetry) * ''Utopic'' (

, 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award) * ''The Secularist'' (

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, 1997 - Contemporary Poetry Series winner) * ''Refinery'' (

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1994 - Cleveland State University Poetry Prize winner) Other Works * ''Ecstatic Émigré'' (

, 2018) Translation * ''Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz,"'' (Omnidawn, 2015). Chapbooks * ''Of and among there was a locus(t)'' (Ahsahta Press, 2003)

Honors and awards

* 2015 Barrick Distinguished Scholar * 2010 Creative Achievement Award * 2007 Jerome Shestack Award, ''The American Poetry Review'' * 2001 Silver Pen Award''Friends Newsletter'', Sandra Macias, University of Nevada, Reno, (Fall 2001)
* 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

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of New Mexico * 1990 Jesse Stuart Award for excellence in teaching

References

External links

“Continuous Acts”
Poetry Society of America
Apologue (1)
poets.org
A Brief Interview with Claudia Keelan
Omnidawn

* ttp://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_claudia_keelan ''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

* ttp://magazine.unlv.edu/Issues/Summer07/30claudiakeelan.html UNLV Magazine, Summer, 2007
''Reading Between A & B'': Claudia Keelan - April 30, 2007
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