The Skin of Meaning

About Keith Flynn

Keith Flynn(www.keithflynn.net) is the award-winning author of seven books most recently Colony Collapse Disorder (Wings Press 2013) and a collection of essays entitled The Rhythm Method Razzmatazz and Memory: How To Make Your Poetry Swing (Writers Digest Books 2007). From 19841999 he was the lyricist and lead singer for the nationally acclaimed rock band The Crystal Zoo which produced three albums: Swimming Through Lake Eerie (1992) Pouch (1996) and the spoken-word and music compilation Nervous Splendor (2003). He is currently touring with a supporting combo The Holy Men whose album LIVE at Diana Wortham Theatre was released in 2011. He is the Executive Director and producer of the TV show LIVE at White Rock Hall and of Animal Sounds Productions both of which create collaborations between writers and musicians in video and audio formats. His award-winning poetry and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies around the world including The American Literary Review The Colorado Review Poetry Wales Five Points Poetry East The Southern Poetry Anthology The Poetics of American Song Lyrics Writers Chronicle The Cimarron Review Rattle Shenandoah Word and Witness: 100 Years of NC Poetry Crazyhorse and many others. He has been awarded the Sandburg Prize for poetry a 2013 NC Literary Fellowship the ASCAP Emerging Songwriter Prize the Paumanok Poetry Award and was twice named the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for NC. Flynn is founder and managing editor of The Asheville Poetry Review which began publishing in 1994.