Lynn Keller

Lynn Keller is the Martha Meier Renk Bascom Professor of Poetry Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With Alan Golding and Adalaide Morris, she edits the Contemporary North American Poetry series from the University of Iowa Press. She is the author of Re-Making It New: Contemporary Poetry and the Modernist Tradition (1987); Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women (1997); Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Exploratory Poetics (2010); and Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene (2017). She currently lives in the northern Bay Area of California, where she continues to think and write about ecopoetics.

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