He has been the longest-serving director of the university's Sandhills Writers Conference & Series which he directed from 1989 to 2015, a period which featured major national and international authors, including Ray Bradbury, Maxine Hong Kingston, Derek Walcott, Edward Albee, Gloria Naylor, and Rick Bragg. After completing in 1989 he joined the English Department at Augusta University, where he is Professor Emeritus of English & Creative Writing. In 1987, he studied for a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University. His experiences at the Central Bank provided inspiration for his first novel The Coral Rooms (1994). He worked as a newspaper reporter, an arts and literature review columnist, and in public relations (first at the Central Bank of Barbados and then at the National Cultural Foundation), before immigrating to the U.S. When Kellman returned to Barbados, he took an English undergraduate degree at the University of the West Indies and published two poetry chapbooks, In Depths of Burning Light (1982) and The Broken Sun (1984), which drew praise from Kamau Brathwaite, among others. Members met in the London district of Earl's Court to share and discuss their works. He also became involved in the London literary scene mainly through the Poetry Society and the late Peter Forbes, former editor of London's Poetry Review. At the age of eighteen, he left for England, where he worked as a troubadour, playing pop and West Indian folk music on the pub and folk club circuit. Kellman was born in Whitehall, Saint Michael, Barbados, and attended Combermere Secondary School. Kellman is the originator of the Barbados poetic form Tuk Verse, derived from melodic and rhythmical patterns of Barbados' indigenous folk music. National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. anthology of English-language Caribbean poetry, Crossing Water, and in 1993, he received a U.S. In 1992, he edited the first full-length U.S. Since 1990, he has published three novels, four CD recordings of original songs, and four additional books of poetry, including Limestone: An Epic Poem of Barbados, the island's first published epic poem which covers over four centuries of Barbadian life. In 1990, the British publishing house Peepal Tree Press published his first full-length book of poetry, Watercourse, which was endorsed by the late Martiniquan poet Edouard Glissant and which launched Kellman's international writing career. professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Augusta UniversityĪnthony Kellman (born 24 April 1955) is a Barbados-born poet, novelist, and musician.
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