August 11, 1911 [Massachusetts] – June 9, 1985 [Los Angeles, California]
Kellogg was born in Massachusetts. He married Marianna Lucy Thompson in 1940 in Florida; they formed the Provincetown Marionettes in Tallahassee around this time (they divorced in 1946). Kellogg then moved to California where he married Adele Frain in 1948. He briefly wrote a column for the New Yorker on Southern California life called “West Coast Intelligence.” He was working as a professional puppeteer in Glendale when his first poems appeared in Grover I. Jacoby’s Variegation and Recurrence. His poem “Four Disinterested Prayers” appeared in Poetry in 1950.
