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Kelly Cherry

American writer and poet laureate (–)

Kelly Cherry (December 21, – March 18, ) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, professor, and literary critic^[1] and a former Poet Laureate of Virginia (–).^[2] She was the author of more than 30 books, including the poetry collections Songs for a Soviet Composer, Death and Transfiguration, Rising Venus and The Retreats of Thought.^[3]^[1] Her short fiction was reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O.

Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South, and won a number of awards.^[4]

Life

Cherry was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,^[1] to J. Milton, a violinist and music professor, and Mary Spooner, a violinist and writer.^[5] She moved to Ithaca, New York, at age 5, and Chesterfield County, Virginia, at age 9.

She received her bachelor's degree from Mary Washington College in and an MFA in from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.^[5] She married Jonathan Silver in and divorced him in ^[5] She later married Walter Burke Davis III, a writer, journalist and bookseller.^[6]

Cherry died on March 18, , at the age of ^[1] The editors of storySouth dedicated the magazine's spring issue to her for her support of "all the little magazines."^[7]

Career

Early career

Cherry graduated from the University of Mary Washington in , did graduate work at the University of Virginia in philosophy as a Du Pont Fellow, and received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

After working in publishing for some years, she accepted a position at Southwest Minnesota State College. She began teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in ^[9]^[10] Cherry later became the Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities^[11] at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[12]

Later career

Cherry retired in and in retirement held chairs and distinguished writer positions at a number of universities, including the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Eminent Scholar), Colgate University, Mercer University, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Hollins University.

A resident of Halifax, Virginia, she was named the state's Poet Laureate by Governor Bob McDonnell in July She succeeded Claudia Emerson in this post (Poet Laureate of Virginia, –).^[13]

Literary themes and styles

Cherry's poetry frequently focused on issues related to philosophy^[14] and language,^[3] and has been described as trying to "discover within the art of poetry methods and procedures identical to, or closely analogous with, those of a science or a rigorous formal philosophy."^[14] Or as Cherry described it, "the becoming-aware of abstraction in real life--since, in order to abstract, you must have something to abstract from."^[15]

Within her novels, the abstract notions of morality become her focus: "My novels deal with moral dilemmas and the shapes they create as they reveal themselves in time.

My poems seek out the most suitable temporal or kinetic structure for a given emotion."^[15] As described in Contemporary Authors, Cherry "manages to capture, in very readable stories, the indecisiveness and mute desperation of life in the twentieth century."^[15]

From the beginning of her career, Cherry wrote both formal verse and free verse.

According to the citation preceding her receipt of the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers in , "Her poetry is marked by a firm intellectual passion, a reverent desire to possess the genuine thought of our century, historical, philosophical, and scientific, and a species of powerful ironic wit which is allied to rare good humor." Reviewing Relativity, Patricia Goedicke noted in Three Rivers Poetry Journal that "her familiarity with the demands and pressures of traditional patterns has resultedin an expansion and deepening of her poetic resources, a carefully textured over- and underlay of image, meaning and diction." Mark Harris felt that Cherry's "ability to sustain a narrative by clustering and repeating images [lends] itself to longer forms, and 'A Bird's Eye View of Einstein,' the longest poem in [Relativity], is an example of Cherry at her poetic best." Reviewing Cherry's collection, Death and Transfiguration, Patricia Gabilondo wrote in The Anglican Theological Review that "the abstract prose poem 'Requiem' that closes this booktranslates personal loss into the historical and universal, providing an occasion for philosophical meditation on the mystery of suffering and the need for transcendence in a post-Holocaust world that seems to offer none.

Moving through the terrors of nihilism and doubt, Cherry, in a poem that deftly alternates between the philosophically abstract and the image's graphic force, gives us an intellectually honest and deeply moving vision of our relation to each other's suffering and of God's relation to humanity's 'memory of pain'."^[15]

Teaching positions in retirement

Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Chair, Appalachian State University
Louis D.

Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence, Hollins University
Master Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts
Ferrol A. Sams, Jr., Distinguished Chair in English, Mercer University
NEH Visiting professor in the Humanities, Colgate University
Eminent Scholar, University of Alabama in Huntsville,

While at the University of Wisconsin

Bibliography

Novels

Sick and full of burning.

New York: Viking Press.
- Reprinted: Ballantine (); Boson Books ()
Augusta Played, Houghton Mifflin, (), ISBN&#;; Louisiana State University Press, ().
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A novel.
In the Wink of an Eye. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN&#;.: A novel. LSU Press, ISBN&#;
The Lost Traveller's Dream, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, () ISBN&#; A novel.
My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers. A novel in stories. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, (); reprinted by University of Alabama Press, ().
We Can Still Be Friends, Soho Press, () hardback; () trade paper, ISBN&#; A novel.

Short fiction

Conversion, Treacle Press, () ISBN&#; A story.
The Society of Friends: Stories, University of Missouri Press, () ISBN&#;
The Woman Who.

Boson Books (), Bitingduck Press. Short stories.
A Kind of Dream.
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Interlinked short stories, U. of Wisconsin Press, spring ISBN&#;
Twelve Women in a Country Called America: Stories. Press 53, May ISBN&#;
Temporium: Before the Beginning To After the End: Fictions. Press October,

Nonfiction

The Exiled Heart. LSU Press.
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The Globe and the Brain: On Place in Fiction, Talking River Publications, Lewis-Clark State College, () ISBN&#;
Writing the World. University of Missouri Press. ISBN&#;.
History, Passion, Freedom, Death, and Hope: Prose about Poetry, University of Tampa Press, () ISBN&#;
The Poem: An Essay, Sandhills Press,
Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life, BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City, , ISBN&#;

Poetry

Collections

Beholder's Eye, poems.

Groundhog Poetry Press,
Weather, poems.
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Alzheimer's, by Kelly Cherry - Zarcrom
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Biography - Poetry Web Project

A chapbook. N.Y.: Rain Mountain Press,

Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Poem. (In shorter poems.) LSU Press, February
Physics for Poets: Poems. Unicorn Press, spring
The Life and Death of Poetry: Poems, LSU Press, March
Vectors: J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Years before the Bomb, Parallel Press,
The Retreats of Thought: Poems.

LSU Press. ISBN&#;.
Death and Transfiguration. LSU Press. ISBN&#;.
Benjamin John, March Street Press, , ISBN&#;
Hazard and Prospect: New and Selected Poems.
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LSU Press. ISBN&#;.

Natural Theology, Louisiana State University Press, , ISBN&#;
Lovers and Agnostics, Carnegie Mellon University Press, , ISBN&#;
An Other Woman, Somers Rocks Press,
God's Loud Hand. LSU Press. ISBN&#;.
Songs for a Soviet Composer, Singing Wind Press, , ISBN&#;
Rising Venus.

LSU Press. ISBN&#;.
Time Out of Mind, March Street Press, , ISBN&#;
Relativity: A Point of View, Louisiana State University Press, , ISBN&#;
Welsh Table Talk, The Book Arts Conservatory,

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Field notes		Cherry, Kelly (July ). "Field notes". The Atlantic Monthly. (1):

Other

Translations

Antigone (trans.), in Sophocles, 2, ed.
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Octavia (trans.), in Seneca: The Tragedies, Vol. 2, ed. Slavitt and Bovie

Publications in Prize Anthologies

Honors, awards and fellowships

Honors

Awards

The William "Singing Billy" Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Southern Letters
Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Finalist, Library of Virginia Fiction Award for A Kind of Dream: Stories.
Selected by LJ among 30 Top Indie Fiction titles.
L.

E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize
Rebecca Mitchell Taramuto Short Fiction Prize for "On Familiar Terms," Blackbird at
The Bravo!Award by the Chesterfield Public Education Foundation, Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia, USA^[17]
Finalist, People's Choice Awards, Library of Virginia, for Girl in a Library: On Women Writers & the Writing Life
Director's Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
The Ellen Anderson Award (first recipient) from the Poetry Society of Virginia
Finalist (with Marvin Bell and Mark Jarman) for The Poets' Prize^[18]
Finalist, Book of the Year Award, ForeWord Magazine, nonfiction, for Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life^[19]
Book of the Year Award by ForeWord Magazine, Silver Prize for Poetry, for Rising Venus.^[20]
Bradley Major Achievement Award (Lifetime), Council for Wisconsin Writers
Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Mary Washington
Dictionary of Literary Biography Award for the best volume of short stories (The Society of Friends: Stories) published in ^[21]
Leidig Lectureship in Poetry, Emory & Henry College
USIS Arts America Speaker Award (The Philippines).

USIS is now called the USIA
, Wisconsin Arts Board New Work Awards
VCCA Writers Exchange Fellow (with Edwin Honig et al.) to Russia (Leningrad, Peredelkino, Yalta)
First Prize for Book-length Fiction, Council for Wisconsin Writers (for My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers)
Wisconsin Notable Author, Literary Committee of the Wisconsin Library Association^[22]
, , PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards
Hanes Poetry Prize^[13] given by the Fellowship of Southern Writers for a body of work, first recipient.
First Prize for Book-length Fiction, Council for Wisconsin Writers (for Augusta Played)
Canaras Award for first novel, Sick and Full of Burning

Fellowships

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, US
Fellow, Le Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
WARF Award (Eudora Welty Chair)
Bascom Award (Evjue-Bascom Chair)
Hawthornden Residency Fellowship, Scotland
, , Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowships, US
, Fellow, Yaddo^[23]
Fellow, The Ragdale Foundation, US
UW Chancellor's Award
UW Romnes Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, US
Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, USA.

Also, ; ; December–January /; ; December–February /; ; ; ; (Weinstein Fellow); June July 14,
Allan Collins Fellowship, Bread Loaf, US

References

^ ^a^b^c^d"Kelly Cherry: A poetic voice for the atomic age" by James T.

Keane, America Magazine, April 05,
^ ^a^bVirginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia. Retrieved on
^ ^a^b"Two Women: One Art The Life and Death of Poetry by Kelly Cherry and Eldest Daughter by Ava Leavell Haymon" by Randall Ivey, Modern Age, 58(1), winter , page
^"Kelly Cherry ()," University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of English, accessed July 17,
^ ^a^b^c"Cherry, Kelly," Encyclopedia of the American Novel by Abby H.

P. Werlock, Infobase Publishing,
^"Walter Burke Davis III Obituary," The News and Observer, Oct. 20,
^"Editor's note," storySouth issue 53, spring , accessed July 17,
^Virginia Poets Laureate at the University of Mary Washington Reunion Day, June 3, Archived June 22, , at the Wayback Machine Video of Reading at University of Mary Washington
^"Biography".

Kelly Cherry Books. Retrieved May 4,
^" Notable Wisconsin Authors". Wisconsin Library Association. May 12, Archived from the original on May 27, Retrieved May 4,
^University of Wisconsin–Madison ~ Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities ~ Kelly CherryArchived at the Wayback Machine.

(). Retrieved on
^University of Wisconsin–Madison Experts Guide ~ Kelly Cherry. Retrieved on
^ ^a^b"Kelly Cherry named Va. poet laureate". The Washington Post. Associated Press. January 28, Archived from the original on October 14, Retrieved May 4,
^ ^a^b"Kelly Cherry in Her Poetry: The Subject as Object" by Fred Chappell, The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol.

58, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: SOUTHERN POETRY (SPRING ), page
^ ^a^b^c^d"Cherry, Kelly ," Contemporary Authors, v. , Gale, , pages
^O. Henry Award for "Not the Phil Donahue Show" The Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer
^"And the BravoAwards Winners are"Chesterfield Observer.

May 18, Retrieved May 22,
^R. S. Gwynn (May 2, ). "Ellen Bryant Voigt Wins Poets' Prize". . Retrieved May 22,
^" Foreword INDIES Finalists in Essays (Adult Nonfiction)". Foreword Reviews. Retrieved 30 October
^ForeWord Magazine 'Book of the Year' award, Silver Prize for Poetry, book: "Rising Venus"
^"Awards".

Kelly Cherry Books.
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Retrieved May 4,
^Notable Wisconsin Authors. Wisconsin Library Association. (pdf) Retrieved on
^Yaddo List of Artist Fellows ~ WritersArchived at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on