Robert Kelly was born on September 24, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York.

He is an American poet, translator, and educator. He studied at the City College of the City University of New York, graduating in 1955. He then spent three years at Columbia University. He worked as a teacher at Bard College, Wagner College (1960-1961), the University at Buffalo (1964), and Tufts University (1966-1967). He also served as Poet-in-Residence at the California Institute of Technology (1971–1972), Yale University (Calhoun College), University of Kansas, Dickinson College, and University of Southern California. Kelly has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose, including "Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993" (1995) and a collection of short fiction, "A Transparent Tree" (1985). He also edited the anthology "A Controversy of Poets" (1965). Kelly received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award (1980) for “Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News” and the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation (1991) for “In Time”. He serves on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions, as well as Poetry International.

He is married to the translator Charlotte Mandell.

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Alexander Ferrie Kemp was born on June 28, 1822, in West Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
He was a Presbyterian clergyman, scholar, and administrator. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and the Presbyterian College, London, England. In 1850, he was ordained to the ministry and became a chaplain to the 26th Cameronian Regiment of Foot, then stationed in Bermuda. In 1855, he accepted a call to the St. Gabriel Street Church in Montreal, where he stayed until 1865. He was also an editor of the Canadian Presbyterian from 1857 to 1858, and in 1861, he published a valuable "Digest of the Minutes of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada". He was a member of the Natural History Society of Montreal and contributed frequently to the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist. McGill College granted him an honorary degree of M.A. in 1863. He was also granted an honorary degree of LL.D. from Queen’s College, Kingston. In 1870, he left for the U.S. where he was teaching at Olivet College, Michigan, and at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. In 1874, he returned to Ontario and became principal of Young Ladies’ College in Brantford (1874-1878) and the Ottawa Ladies’ College (1878-1883).
In 1845, he married Mary Young (1819–1899). He died on May 3, 1884, in Hamilton, Ontario.

David Robert Kemp was born abt. 1847 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. He was an accountant and bank clerk in Scotland. In 1868, he married Margaret Anne Bell (1847–1934), niece of Margaret Ann Young Mercer Dawson and Sir William Dawson. He died on November 15, 1905, in London, England.

Daniel William Kemp was born in 1844 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.

He was a metal merchant and paint manager. He was educated at the local Grammar school and at Edinburgh Academy. He was interested in business, politics, literature, science, art, antiquities, volunteering, and philanthropy. He was a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. On the formation of the Scottish History Society in 1887, he became its editor. He edited "Pococke's Tours in Scotland, 1747-1760." He was the founder of the Edinburgh Association of Science and Art in 1891. Kemp was for many years a moving spirit in the Sutherland Association (Edinburgh) and was appointed a Justice of the Peace of the Southerland County.

In 1869, he married Ellen Primrose Bell (1849–). He died on February 27, 1922, in Edinburgh, Scotland.