Poetry at Beattie: Robert Kelly and Michael Ives, Sun., Sept. 2, 5pm. Free admission

Friends of Beattie-Powers welcomes noted poets Michael Ives and Robert Kelly, who will read their own works in our first program in collaboration with Blue Mountain Readings. 
Reservations at rhoveninc@gmail.com. 

Robert Kelly is the Grandson of Thomas Kane of Babylon, great-grandson of the Devon poet Samuel Marles, RK comes from the south shore of Long Island, and has lived as close as he could to the ocean ever since, for the past half-century along the Hudson Estuary, a region blessed by the two sacred birds, the Gull and the Crow, together, the tidal flow still 3% saline at Kingston.
 

He teaches in the Written Arts Program at Bard College, where he was a founder and organizer of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, a radical innovation in the teaching of creative disciplines practiced in inter-communion.

Mr. Kelly is the author of many books of poetry, five collections of short stories, two novels, two books of 
plays, and two books of prose commentaries—one of which, A Voice full of Cities, is a comprehensive Collected Essays. His most recent books of poetry, the long poem Calls and an experimental cycle, The Caprices, were published recently right here in Catskill by the Lunar Chandelier Collective. He lives in Annandale with his wife Charlotte, the celebrated translator of French literature, who is also an ordained Buddhist teacher.

Michael Ives is a writer and musician living in the Hudson Valley. His work with the poetry performance trio, F’loom, was featured on National Public Radio, the CBC, on radio programs throughout South America and Europe, and in various international anthologies of sound poetry and new music composition. His poetry and prose have appeared in such journals as Conjunctions, Sulfur, Mississippi Review, New American Writing, Fence, Exquisite Corpse, and theDenver Quarterly. His books include The External Combustion Engine, Wavetable, and most recently, The Flesh of Suddenness. He is Poet in Residence at Bard College, where he has taught in the Written Arts Program since 2003.