Subject: INTRO: Steve Kelen

Good day
I have just joined "Writers" and had better introduce myself, I guess.  I
recently put a submission into the ether, a poem "Jack Blizzard".  Following
is a brief bio that is on the MIT homepage
at:http://web.mit.edu/humanistic/www/kelen.htm   (I did a reading there in
March).  My e-mail address is SKelen@dca.gov.au.  Snail mail address: 25
Longstaff Street LYNEHAM  ACT  2602  AUSTRALIA.  Anyone wishing to obtain a
copy of my latest book, "Trans-Sumatran Highway & other poems" can order it
direct from me or from Polonius Press whose address is 35 Wybalena Grove COOK
ACT  2614.  It's had some good reviews and is selling solidly (the cover is
great - a portrait of a post-coital Sumatran tigress).  I have recently
completed a stint as Visiting Professor of Poetry at the University of South
Dakota which was a great experience.  Anyhow, here's the MIT blurb:

Steve Kelen was born in the year television and the Olympics came to
Australia. He studied
Philosophy and Literature at the University of Sydney and remains an ardent
student of life. He lives
in Canberra and enjoys travelling. Kelen's poems have been published in
Australian journals and
newspapers, broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio
National and have
appeared in journals in the UK, US, Canada, Japan and in cyberspace. His
latest book,
Trans-Sumatran Highway & other poems was published in 1995. His other books
are Atomic
Ballet (1991) and Dingo Sky (1993). In 1995 Kelen received a Writer's Project
Grant from the
Literature Board of the Australia Council and in 1996 is Visiting Writer at
the University of South
Dakota.

Examples of Steve Kelen's work are Bliss, House of Rats, and Fishing Village.

Stephen Kelen read at MIT on March 7, at 7:30 pm in Bartos Theatre in the
Wiesner Building, 20
Ames Street, Cambridge. For further information call 253-7894.

Glad to be aboard
Cheers
Steve K K
SKelen@DCA.GOV.AU