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Marilyn Kallet served two terms as Knoxville Poet Laureate, June 27, 2018-June 2020. Even When We Sleep is her 19th book publication. Other poetry volumes include 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. 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; this group will resume in Spring, 2022. Kallet’s poems have appeared in Plume, New Letters, Potomac Review and American Diversity Report, among others.

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My new book of poems, Even When We Sleep, is out now from Black Widow Press/Commonwealth Books! The author is Marilyn Kallet. It's available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, or you can order from your favorite bookstore!

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	Packing Light: New & Selected Poems 4.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival by Marilyn Kallet (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marilyn Kallet (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circe, After Hours: poems 4.34 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Get Heat Without Fire (New Millennium Women Poets Series) 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Love That Moves Me 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack The Healing Cat by Marilyn Kallet (Goodreads Author), Sandra Van Winkle (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Even When We Sleep it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Our Bodies Learned 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House Of Gathering: Poets On May Sartons Poetry by Marilyn Kallet (Goodreads Author), May Sarton (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One for Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Daniel (last edited Feb 27, 2008 08:22AM)

Feb 27, 2008 08:21AM

Marilyn, I've added your books Circe, After Hours: Poems, How to Get Heat Without Fire, Jack The Healing Cat, One For Each Night: Chanuks Tales and Recipies and Honest Simplicity in William Carlos William's "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower to my to-read list.

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