Works by
Collin Kelley (Journalist,
Playwright, Poet)
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"Atlanta native Collin Kelley is an
award-winning poet, playwright and journalist. He is the author
of After the Poison (2008, forthcoming from Finishing Line
Press), Slow To Burn, Better To Travel and a spoken word album,
HalfLife Crisis. He is the recipient of a Georgia Author of the
Year Award and a nominee for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award,
Lambda Literary Award and the Pushcart Prize. Kelley’s poetry
has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals and
in the critically acclaimed anthologies, Red Light: Superheroes,
Sluts & Saints and We Don’t Stop Here. He is also co-editor of
the award-winning Java Monkey Speaks Anthology series. His play,
The Dark Horse, was the recipient of the 1994 Deep South
Festival of Writer's Award for Best Play and the 1997 Georgia
Theatre Conference Award for Best Play. For more information,
visit http://www.collinkelley.com." --
Saints & Sinners
HalfLife Crisis
(2004) 1 ...and says Yes featuring Denton Perry 2
Better To Travel featuring Christeen Snell 3 Answering Machine 4
Battersea 5 Diners at 2 A.M. 6 Exhibit 1 featuring Christeen Snell 7
Short Time 8 Sex In My Parents' House 9 HalfLife Crisis 10 Los Angeles
11 The Clarity of Loss 12 What Remains 13 Funky 1 (Part 1) featuring
Denton Perry 14 What I Want To Be Pam Grier (Live at the Ugly Mug) 15
...and says Yes (Reprise) featuring Denton Perry 16 Bonus Track
Conquering Venus
(August 5, 2009 release)
In the summer of 1995, young American writer Martin
Paige agrees to chaperone a group of high school seniors on their
graduation trip to Paris as a favor to his best friend, teacher Diane
Jacobs. Diane hopes Europe will act as a catalyst to lift Martin from his
grief following the suicide of his lover, Peter. But the trip proves to be
more than either of them bargained for. Martin finds himself falling in
love with one of her students, David McLaren, who is unprepared to cope
with his burgeoning sexuality. He also meets a mysterious Parisian woman,
Irène Laureaux, who is debilitated by agoraphobia and spends her days
spying on the hotel guests across from her apartment. Martin and Irène
discover they have a logic-defying connection: a small tribal tattoo on
their left hands that means equal but opposite. This is same tattoo that
Martin s lover and Irène s husband had inked into their skin. All the
characters lives are irrevocably changed in a horrifying terrorist attack
on a Paris metro station. Liberated by the blast, forced from her own
self-imprisonment, Irène learns her husband s death was not an accident,
and dares Martin to acknowledge the role he played in Peter s suicide.
Diane, harboring her own secrets and a hidden agenda, takes a drastic step
to force David out of the closet and admit his feelings for Martin. From
America to England to France, the globe-hopping story places fictional
characters amidst historical events such as the Nazi occupation of Paris,
the student/worker riots of 1968 and the terrorist bombings of Paris in
1995. Grounded in reality, Conquering Venus is a mystery, a love story and
a journey of self-realization.
Better to Travel: Selected Poems
(2003) Collin Kelley’s debut, Better To Travel,
is a haunting cycle of poetry dispatched from the teeming streets of
London and New York to the decadence of Paris and New Orleans. From
these far-flung outposts, Kelley deftly and unblinkingly conveys the end
of a relationship and the need to escape to “sights unseen.” Readers
have compared Kelley’s poetry to the emotional work of Anne Sexton and
Sharon Olds. This is confessional poetry in its truest form: raw,
uninhibited and unflinching.
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