“…but my favorite piece among the literary essays is Keith Taylor's beautiful Old Criticism essay on Ernest Hemingway’s prose…”
    –Larry McMurtry, reviewing A New Literary History of America in The New York Review of Books

Poet and writer Keith Taylor coordinates the undergraduate program in creative writing at the University of Michigan, directs the Bear River Writer's Conference, is the poetry editor for Michigan Quarterly Review, and contributes occasionally to their blog. His fourteenth collection, the chapbook The Ancient Murrelet, was published in 2013 by Alice Greene & Co. an imprint of T.H. Peak. His work has appeared in such publications as Story, The Los Angeles Times, Alternative Press, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, The Iowa Review, Witness, Chicago Tribune, and Hanging Loose. Other recent books are Marginalia for a Natural History published by Black Lawrence Press, and Ghost Writers, a collection of ghost stories co-edited with Laura Kasischke, published by Wayne State University Press.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Thursday, 12 June 2014
7:30 pm
Recorded poem as part of dance performance
Into the Wind
Betty Pease Studio Theater
University of Michigan Department of Dance
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Friday,13 June 2014
5 - 7 pm
Reading with other contributors
Poetry in Michigan, Michigan in Poetry 
Dog Ears Books
Northport, Michigan

Thursday, 19 June 2014
5:30 - 8 pm
Banquet and Reading
Theodore Roethke House
Saginaw, Michigan

Thursday, 7 August 2014
6 - 9 pm
Reading
Alpena Poets Nights
Alpena, Michigan

Friday, 22 August 2014
Saturday, 23 August 2014
Time/Location TBD
Into the Wind
Muskegon, Michigan

Saturday, 20 September 2014
6:30 - 9 pm
Reading at fundraiser
Everybody Has a Story
South Bend, Indiana

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