Marilyn Kallet is the author of 17 previous books, including The Love That Moves Me and Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, poetry from Black Widow Press. She has translated Paul Eluard's Last Love Poems, Peret's The Big Game, and co-translated Chantal Bizzini's Disenchanted City. Dr. Kallet is Nancy Moore Goslee Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She leads poetry workshops every year for VCCA-France in Auvillar. She has performed her poems on campuses and in theaters across the United States as well as in France and Poland, as a guest of the U.S. Embassy's "America Presents" program. The University of Tennessee has listed her as a specialist on poetry's role in times of crisis, as well as on poetry and healing, poetry and humor, poetry and dreams, poetry and Jewish identity.