Kelly Cherry
Former Eudora Welty Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kelly Cherry is a prolific writer of poetry, essays and fiction. Her many books include Death and Transfiguration: Poems (LSU, 1997), The Life and Death of Poetry (LSU, 2013), The Woman Who [Stories] (Boson Books, 2010) and A Kind of Dream [linked stories] (2014). She received the Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry in 2012, and a new collection of poems, Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer, was recently released by LSU. Battle Scene
The blacksmith sun hammered the empty plain Into a great gold plate: a mere mountain Wouldn’t withstand that onslaught day in and out. Bird droppings dropt on bright rock rang like cut Glass, and a scorpion darted, like a tongue, … Continue reading