Michael Kelleher

Michael Kelleher is an American poet. He is the author of two collections of poems, Human Scale (BlazeVOX Books, 2007) and To Be Sung (BlazeVOX Books, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared at The Poetry Foundation Website, Jacket, ecopoetics, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Brooklyn Rail, The Buffalo News, Slope, and others, and he has read his work in the U.S., Canada, and as part of the Encuentro del Poesia Del Lenguaje in Havana, Cuba in 2001. With Ammiel Alcalay, he edits the 'OlsonNow' blog, which is dedicated to the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson. Since 2000, he has edited ELEVATOR, an artist's book poetry press, whose projects have included The Box Project (2000), based on the work of eco-installation artist Brian Collier, The Postcard Project (2001) based on the work of French painter/sculptor Isabelle Pellissier, and The Grid Project (2003), based on the work of artist Amy Stalling and her husband, Jonathan Stalling who translates from Chinese. In 2008, he began a blog project called "Aimless Reading," in which he daily catalogs his personal library in alphabetical order, photographing and writing about each title. He lives in Buffalo, NY, where he works as the Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center.

External links

• Pearl Blossom Highway Kelleher's personal blog and the home of the Aimless Reading Project
• OlsonNow a blog on the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson, edited by Michael Kelleher and Ammiel Alcalay
• Feature: Robert Creeley (1926–2005) edited by Michael Kelleher, with contributions by Amiri Baraka & Susan Howe among others

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