Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly: born in 1935, is an American poet associated with the deep image group. He is the 2016–2017 Poet Laureate of Dutchess County, New York and has worked as a translator and teacher, most notably at Bard College. He has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960 –1993, (1995), A Transparent Tree (1985), and May Day (Parsifal Press, 2007). He is married to the translator Charlotte Mandell.