“…but my favorite piece of 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 recently retired from the University of Michigan where he taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs in creative writing.
Recent publication: January 2021, Let Them Be Left, poems from Isle Royale published by Alice Greene & Co.
His sixteenth collection, The Bird-while, was published by Wayne State University Press February 2017. Ecstatic Destinations was published by Alice Greene & Co in 2018.
Keith's 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 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.
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