A selling point of poetry is that it expands the ways we can access some of life’s most vital truths. For poet and longtime UNLV professor Claudia Keelan, poetry is an art of continual present-tense attention to the world, in its largest and smallest movements — you never know what detail will yield a new insight. In this episode of Desert Air, Keelan sits down with Desert Companion editor-at-large Scott Dickensheets to talk about her life and work.
Poet and UNLV professor Claudia Keelan talks grief, life as a poet, and how being present can make all the difference in the creative process
