Robert Kelly is perhaps the most prolific major poet in contemporary American literature. He is also one of the country's most respected shortfiction writers and teachers of creative writing. The founder of three distinguished literary...

Robert Kelly is among the major postmodern American writers and editors who are the second-generation inheritors of a great modernist tradition and the founders of a methodology for composition that incorporates principles of depth psychology. The...

Robert Kelly is a consummate man of letters. An editor, essayist, anthologist, writer of fiction, playwright, teacher of language and literature, and poet, he has had influence upon a wide range of individual writers as well as upon the literary scene...

Robert Desnos was a Surrealist French poet who wrote articles for a number of newspapers in the 1920s. He wrote about movies, popular music, the mannequins of Paris, city buses, Jack the Ripper and even poetry. Desnos left the Surrealist movement after a rift...

The poet Robert Friend was born in New York in 1913 and emigrated to Israel in 1950. He died in 1998, one year before the publication of his Found in Translation: A Hundred Years of Modern Hebrew Poetry (edited by Gabriel Levin). I first...

The star-studded event honoring the best of R&B; and Hip Hop music will mark the fourth annual Billboard awards show dedicated to these genres. The ceremony will be held on Friday, August 6 at Barton G (formally Billboardlive) in Miami Beach. The gala event will...

Photograph by Sarah A. FriedmanIt's almost midnight. Do you know where R. Kelly is? Regina Daniels doesn't, and she probably should. It's part of her job description. She's the wife of George Daniels, the owner of both branches of the legendary Chicago record store George's...

In the following interview, Kelly discusses his interest in poetry and fiction as well as his creative process.

In the following review of A Transparent Tree, Skiles claims that the prose in this volume is “highly metaphorical, metaphysical, and mystical.”

In the following review of Cat Scratch Fever, Laidlaw describes Kelly's fictions as “a myriad of dazzling forms.”