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Kelly Cherry (December 21, 1940 – March 18, 2022) was a novelist, poet, essayist, professor, and literary criticKelly Cherry: A poetic voice for the atomic age
by James T. Keane,
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and a former
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(2010–2012).Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
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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''."Two Women: One Art The Life and Death of Poetry by Kelly Cherry and Eldest Daughter by Ava Leavell Haymon" by Randall Ivey,
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, 58(1), winter 2016, page 82.
Her short fiction was reprinted in
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, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards,
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, and
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, and won a number of awards.Kelly Cherry (1940-2022)
"
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, Department of English, accessed July 17, 2022.


Life

Cherry was born in
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to J. Milton, a violinist and music professor, and Mary Spooner, a violinist and writer."Cherry, Kelly," ''Encyclopedia of the American Novel'' by Abby H. P. Werlock,
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, 2015.
She moved to
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, at age 5, and
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, at age 9. She received her bachelors degree from
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in 1961 and an MFA in 1967 from the
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. She married Jonathan Silver in 1966 and divorced him in 1969. She later married Walter Burke Davis, III, a writer, journalist and bookseller. Cherry died on March 18, 2022, at the age of 81. She was survived by her son Booker and preceded in death by her husband Burke Davis III. The editors of
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dedicated the magazine's spring 2022 issue to her for her support of "all the little magazines."


Career


Early career

Cherry graduated from the
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in 1961, did graduate work at the
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in Philosophy as a Du Pont Fellow, and received a Masters of Fine Arts from the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. UNCG, like all members of the UNC system, is a stand-al ...
. After working in publishing for some years, she accepted a position at Southwest Minnesota State College. She began teaching at the
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in 1977. Cherry later became the Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the
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.


Later career

Cherry retired in 1999 and in retirement held chairs and distinguished writer positions at a number of universities, including the
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(Eminent Scholar),
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,
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,
Atlantic Center for the Arts Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary artists’ community and arts education facility providing artists an opportunity to work and collaborate with contemporary artists in the fields of composing, visual, litera ...
, and
Hollins University Hollins University is a private university in Hollins, Virginia. Founded in 1842 as Valley Union Seminary in the historical settlement of Botetourt Springs, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States ...
. A resident of
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, she was named the state's Poet Laureate by Governor
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in July 2010. She succeeded
Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson (January 13, 1957 – December 4, 2014) was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection ''Late Wife'', and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008. Early life Emerso ...
in this post (
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, 2008–2010).


Literary themes and styles

Cherry's poetry frequently focused on issues related to philosophy"Kelly Cherry in Her Poetry: The Subject as Object" by Fred Chappell, The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: SOUTHERN POETRY (SPRING 2005), page 256. and language, 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." 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.""Cherry, Kelly 1940-,"
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, v. 209, Gale, 2003, pages 116-135.
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." As described in
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, Cherry "manages to capture, in very readable stories, the indecisiveness and mute desperation of life in the twentieth century." 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 1989, "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,
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noted in Three Rivers Poetry Journal that "her familiarity with the demands and pressures of traditional patterns has resulted...in 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
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itself to longer forms, and 'A Bird's Eye View of Einstein,' the longest poem in elativity is an example of Cherry at her poetic best." Reviewing Cherry's collection, ''Death and Transfiguration'', Patricia Gabilondo wrote in The
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that "the abstract prose poem 'Requiem' that closes this book...translates 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'."


Teaching positions in retirement

*Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Chair,
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*Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence,
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*Master Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts *Ferrol A. Sams, Jr., Distinguished Chair in English,
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*NEH Visiting Professor in the Humanities,
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*Eminent Scholar,
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, 1999-2004


While at the University of Wisconsin

*Wyndham Robertson Writer-in-Residence,
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*Distinguished Professor,
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*Full Professor and Distinguished Writer-in-Residence,
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Other positions and posts include

*Member, Electorate, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC (five-year term beginning 2009; extended to 2016; now Electorate Emeritus) *Associated Writing Programs Board of Directors (1990–93) *Discipline Advisory Committee for Fulbright Awards (1991–94) *Advisory Editor, ''Shenandoah'' (1988–92) *Contributing Editor, ''The Hollins Critic'' (1996–present) *Contributing Editor, ''The Smart Set'' (2015–present)


Bibliography


Novels

* ** Reprinted: Ballantine (1975); Boson Books (1995) *''Augusta Played'', Houghton Mifflin, (1979), ; Louisiana State University Press, (1984). A novel. *: A novel. LSU Press, 2004. *''The Lost Traveller's Dream'', Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1984) . A novel. * ''My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers''. A novel in stories. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, (1990); reprinted by University of Alabama Press, (2002). *''We Can Still Be Friends'', Soho Press, (2003) hardback; (2004) trade paper, . A novel.


Short fiction

*''Conversion'', Treacle Press, (1979) . A story. *''The Society of Friends: Stories'', University of Missouri Press, (1999) * ''The Woman Who''. Boson Books (2010), Bitingduck Press. Short stories. * ''A Kind of Dream''. Interlinked short stories, U. of Wisconsin Press, spring 2014. * ''Twelve Women in a Country Called America: Stories''. Press 53, May 2015. * ''Temporium: Before the Beginning To After the End: Fictions''. Press 53. October, 2017.


Nonfiction

* *''The Globe and the Brain: On Place in Fiction'', Talking River Publications, Lewis-Clark State College, (2006) * *''History, Passion, Freedom, Death, and Hope: Prose about Poetry'', University of Tampa Press, (2005) *''The Poem: An Essay'', Sandhills Press, 1999 *''Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life'', BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2009,


Poetry

;Collections * ''Beholder's Eye'', poems. Groundhog Poetry Press, 2017. * ''Weather'', poems. A chapbook. N.Y.: Rain Mountain Press, 2017. *''Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Poem. (In shorter poems.)'' LSU Press, February 2017. *''Physics for Poets: Poems''. Unicorn Press, spring 2015 *''The Life and Death of Poetry: Poems'', LSU Press, March 2013 *''Vectors: J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Years before the Bomb'', Parallel Press, 2012 * * *''Benjamin John'', March Street Press, 1993, * *''Natural Theology'', Louisiana State University Press, 1988, *''Lovers and Agnostics'', Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1995, *''An Other Woman'', Somers Rocks Press, 2000 * *''Songs for a Soviet Composer'', Singing Wind Press, 1980, * *''Time Out of Mind'', March Street Press, 1994, *''Relativity: A Point of View'', Louisiana State University Press, 1977, *''Welsh Table Talk'', The Book Arts Conservatory, 2004 ;List of poems


Other

*''A Kelly Cherry Reader''. TX: Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2015. Intro by Fred Chappell. Stories, novel excerpts, essays (familiar, instructive), eight poems.


Translations

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


Publications in Prize Anthologies

*
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(1972) *Prize Stories: The
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(1994) *
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(1977) *
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(1989, 2009)


Honors, awards and fellowships


Honors

*2010–12
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Awards

*2017 The William "Singing Billy" Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Southern Letters *2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro *2015 Finalist, Library of Virginia Fiction Award for ''A Kind of Dream: Stories''. *2015 Selected by LJ among 30 Top Indie Fiction titles. *2013 L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award *2012 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize *2012 Rebecca Mitchell Taramuto Short Fiction Prize for "On Familiar Terms," Blackbird at www.blackbird.vcu.edu *2011 The Bravo!Award by the Chesterfield Public Education Foundation, Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia, USA *2010 Finalist, People's Choice Awards, Library of Virginia, for ''Girl in a Library: On Women Writers & the Writing Life'' *2010 Director’s Visitor,
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, Princeton, New Jersey *2010 The Ellen Anderson Award (first recipient) from the Poetry Society of Virginia *2009 Finalist (with Marvin Bell and Mark Jarman) for The
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*2009 Finalist, Book of the Year Award,
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, nonfiction, for ''Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the Writing Life'' *2002 Book of the Year Award by ForeWord Magazine, Silver Prize for Poetry, for ''Rising Venus''. *2000 Bradley Major Achievement Award (Lifetime), Council for Wisconsin Writers *2000 Distinguished Alumnus Award,
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*2000 Dictionary of Literary Biography Award for the best volume of short stories (''The Society of Friends: Stories'') published in 1999 * 1999 Leidig Lectureship in Poetry, Emory & Henry College *1992 USIS Arts America Speaker Award (The Philippines). USIS is now called the
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*1992, 1991 Wisconsin Arts Board New Work Awards * 1991 VCCA Writers Exchange Fellow (with Edwin Honig et al.) to Russia (Leningrad, Peredelkino, Yalta) *1991 First Prize for Book-length Fiction, Council for Wisconsin Writers (for ''My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers'') *1991 Wisconsin Notable Author, Literary Committee of the Wisconsin Library Association *1990, 1987, 1983 PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards *1989 Hanes Poetry Prize given by the
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for a body of work, first recipient. *1980 First Prize for Book-length Fiction, Council for Wisconsin Writers (for ''Augusta Played'') *1974 Canaras Award for first novel, ''Sick and Full of Burning''


Fellowships

*2009
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Fellowship, USA *2005 Fellow, Le Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France *1997 WARF Award (Eudora Welty Chair) *1993 Bascom Award (Evjue-Bascom Chair) *1994 Hawthornden Residency Fellowship, Scotland *1991, 1988, 1984
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Fellowships, USA *1989, 1979 Fellow,
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*1986 Fellow, The
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Foundation, USA *1984 UW Chancellor's Award *1983 UW Romnes Fellowship *1979
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Fellowship, USA *1978 Fellow,
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, USA. Also, 1985; 1986; December–January 1987/1988; 1989; December–February 1990/1991; 2003; 2004; 2007; 2011 (Weinstein Fellow); June 13-July 14, 2013 *1975 Allan Collins Fellowship, Bread Loaf, USA


References


Further reading

* Elliot, Okla. ''What Kelly Cherry Knows''. "An Embarrassment of Riches". Inside Higher Ed BlogU. Inside the Education of Ornate Churm. August 4, 201
"An Embarrassment of Riches" by Okla Elliot. ''What Kelly Cherry Knows''. Inside Higher Ed BlogU. Inside the Education of Ornate Churm. August 4, 2011.
interview by Okla Elliot * Alger, Derek. "From the Editor: Interview with Kelly Cherry". PIF Magazine. October 1, 2010
"From the Editor: Interview with Kelly Cherry" by Derek Alger. PIF Magazine. October 1, 2010.
interview by Derek Alger


External links


Kelly Cherry's former website
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