Marilyn Kallet served two terms as Knoxville Poet Laureate, July 2018-July 2020. She has published 19 books, including How Our Bodies Learned, The Love That Moves Me and Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, Black Widow Press. She translated Paul Eluard's Last Love Poems and Benjamin Péret's The Big Game. Dr. Kallet is Professor Emerita at the University of Tennessee. Since 2009, she has mentored poetry groups for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, in Auvillar, France. Her poems have appeared in Plume, New Letters, Potomac Review, Still: The Journal and American Diversity Report, among others.

Marilyn Kallet's 8th book of lyric poems.

Marilyn Kallet served two terms as Knoxville Poet Laureate, July 2018-July 2020. She has published 19 books, including How Our Bodies Learned, The Love That Moves Me and Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, Black Widow Press. She translated Paul Eluard's Last Love Poems and Benjamin Péret's The Big Game. Dr. Kallet is Professor Emerita at the University of Tennessee. Since 2009, she has mentored poetry groups for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, in Auvillar, France. Her poems have appeared in Plume, New Letters, Potomac Review, Still: The Journal and American Diversity Report, among others.