Joe Milford Hosts Michael Kelleher

Michael Kelleher is the author of two collections of poems, Human Scale (BlazeVOX Books, 2007) and To Be Sung (BlazeVOX Books, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared at The Poetry Foundation Website, Jacket, ecopoetics, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Brooklyn Rail, The Buffalo News, Slope, and others, and he has read his work in the U.S., Canada, and as part of the Encuentro del Poesia Del Lenguaje in Havana, Cuba in 2001. With Ammiel Alcalay, he edits the 'OlsonNow' blog, which is dedicated to the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson. From 2000-2003, he has edited ELEVATOR, an artist's book poetry press, whose projects have included The Box Project (2000), based on the work of eco-installation artist Brian Collier, The Postcard Project (2001) based on the work of French painter/sculptor Isabelle Pellissier, and The Grid Project (2003), based on the work of artist Amy Stalling and her husband, Jonathan Stalling who translates from Chinese. From 2003-2008, he edited "In The Margins," the literary column of Artvoice, Buffalo's alternative weekly. He lives in Buffalo, NY, where he works as the Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center.