Symphonies, poetry by Roberet Kelly will be published in the Fall of 2025 by Wet Cement Press.
 
Robert Kelly was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 24, 1935, where he spent his first eight years on the south shore of Long Island. He discovered a love for poetry after reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” and developed an affinity for the “haunted reality of words.” Early influences also included Charles Baudelaire, Ezra Pound, and Guillaume Apollinaire. After receiving an undergraduate degree in 1955 from the City College of the City University of New York, Kelly studied for three years at Columbia University. Cofounder of the Chelsea Review (now Chelsea) and Trobar magazine, he began developing a poetics he referred to as Deep Image, referencing the “deep structure” of linguistics. [from the Academy of American Poets]