Claudia Keelan

Claudia Keelan
Born1959 (age 66–67)
Occupations
  • Poet
  • writer
  • professor

Claudia Keelan (born 1959) is an American poet, writer, and professor. She received the Regents’ Creative Activities Award, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.[1]

Life

Claudia Keelan is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently We Step into the Sea: New and Selected Poems (Barrow Street, 2018).[2] Her book of translations Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz, from Omnidawn Press appeared in 2016.[3] Ecstatic Emigre was published in the Poets on Poetry Series from University of Michigan Press in 2018.[4]

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).[5]

She is the editor of Interim, a print and online 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 Las Vegas where she is a Barrick Distinguished Scholar.[6]

In 2017, she was part of a literary delegation to Cuba.[7]

She was a judge for the 2021 PEN literary awards.[8][9]

Bibliography

Full-Length Poetry Collections

Other Works

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

References

  1. ↑ "From the Sociology of Medicine to the Songs of the Trobairitz". University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 14 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  2. ↑ "We Step into the Sea: New and Selected Poems". Barrow Street. Retrieved 17 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz". Omnidawn. Retrieved 17 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice". University of Michigan Press. Retrieved 17 May 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Claudia Keelan, Creative Activity Award" (PDF). Nevada System of Higher Education. 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 "Claudia Keelan". University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Retrieved 17 May 2026.
  7. ↑ "UNLV professor taking new US export to Cuba: poetry". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  8. ↑ "2021 PEN America Literary Awards Given to Top Literary Stars of the Year, Lifelong Luminaries of Literary Excellence". PEN America. 2021-04-08. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  9. ↑ Shapley, Tracy (2021-02-10). "2021 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists Announced". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  10. ↑ Macias, Sandra (Fall 2001). "Friends Newsletter". University of Nevada, Reno. Archived from the original on 2010-06-06. Retrieved 17 May 2026.
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