Lora Keller
Poet
Basketball Fanatic
I am in serious trouble. I can't stop thinking about basketball. I can't stop revising the 50-page poetry collection I've already written about basketball. I can't stop finding more poems that need writing about basketball. This kind of trouble is so darn fun. And so hard. Fiddling with words all day. Here's the working title:
48 Minutes of Bliss, of Chaos
Kind of like my life. The bliss and chaos part of it.
48 Minutes of Bliss, of Chaos
Kind of like my life. The bliss and chaos part of it.
Reviews
Lora Keller's skillful ease with a wide range of subjects is a pleasure. Her intuitive language and refreshing insightfulness cast unexpectedly revealing and fascinating brilliance... so unrelentingly precise and beautiful in description, it is nothing short of an awakening.
-- Leslie Monsour, judge for the Council for Wisconsin Writers 2022 poetry contest
It's just a vivid, musical, highly condensed, and yet evocative rendering of a scene that Edward Hopper might have painted.
- Max Garland, judge for Wisconsin Writers Association Jade Ring Contest.
This poem uses simile and extended metaphor in surprising and ultimately very lovely ways: each image and comparison is clear, extremely specific, and intentional. The concision of the syntax leaves plenty of room for the reader’s imagination, and the sentences get shorter as the climax approaches – a breathless stuttering. The final two stanzas took my breath away. A cat in the garden, a tussle, and a shower of petals – and the speaker steps into the beauty of her sexuality for the first time. This is a gorgeous, finished poem.
-- 2021 Triad Contest Judge
-- Leslie Monsour, judge for the Council for Wisconsin Writers 2022 poetry contest
It's just a vivid, musical, highly condensed, and yet evocative rendering of a scene that Edward Hopper might have painted.
- Max Garland, judge for Wisconsin Writers Association Jade Ring Contest.
This poem uses simile and extended metaphor in surprising and ultimately very lovely ways: each image and comparison is clear, extremely specific, and intentional. The concision of the syntax leaves plenty of room for the reader’s imagination, and the sentences get shorter as the climax approaches – a breathless stuttering. The final two stanzas took my breath away. A cat in the garden, a tussle, and a shower of petals – and the speaker steps into the beauty of her sexuality for the first time. This is a gorgeous, finished poem.
-- 2021 Triad Contest Judge