“Taylor plays all of poetry’s themes. There are nature poems, love poems, and growing-old poems. War lurks at the edges…But his central preoccupation is redemption.”
– John Lofy, Ann Arbor Observer
UPCOMING EVENTS
Friday–Sunday, 4–6 October 2019
Featured Artist
Big Sable Writer's Retreat
Camp Douglas Smith
Free Soil, Michigan
Saturday, 12 October 2019
5–7 pm
Poetry Reading
North45East
Alpena, Michigan
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
6–7:30 pm
Guest Author
Ron Ron Riekki & Special Guest Authors
Pages Bookshop
Detroit, Michigan
Sunday, 27 October 2019
4–6 pm
Poetry Reading
Dunes Review Reading & Launch Party
Brilliant Books
Traverse City, Michigan
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
7:30 pm
Poetry Reading
RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music
RCAH Theater
Michigan State University
Center for Poetry
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
Lansing, Michigan
Wednesday, 6 November 2019
7–9 pm
Poetry Reading
Taylor, Daniels, Brice & Brice
White Whale Bookstore
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Monday, 6 January 2020
7 pm
Interview with Thomas Lynch
The Depositions: New and Select Essays on Being and Ceasing To Be
Literati Bookstore
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Time/Location TBD
Reading with Anna Clark, Jerry Dennis, Margaret Noodin
University of Michigan
Great Lakes Theme Semester
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sunday–Saturday, 14–20 June 2020
Poetry Instructor
Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
PAST EVENTS
Archive in-progress
2019
Friday, 24 May 2019
7 pm
Introducing Clayton Eshleman and his new book of poems
Literati Bookstore
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Friday, 19 April 2019
7 pm
Poetry reading with Sue Silverman, Marc J. Sheehan, and Elizabeth Schmuhl
Literati Bookstore
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2018
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
7 pm
Introducing and interviewing Elizabeth Schmuhl
Literati Bookstore
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Friday, 14 September 2018
4-6 pm
Reading with Michigan writers
Making Waves with FLOW for the Love of Water
A celebration and reading from the new chapbook, Seiche Ways, to benefit FLOW
The Workshop Brewing Company
Traverse City, Michigan
Friday, 20 April 2018
7 pm
Cody Walker conducts Keith Taylor’s “Exit Interview”
Literati Bookstore
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thursday, 29 March 2018
7 pm
Keith Taylor interviews Tarfia Faizullah at the launch of her new book Registers of Illuminated Villages
Literati Bookstore
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2017
31 May - 4 June 2017
Bear River Writer's Conference
Petoskey, Michigan
Friday, 7 April 2017
10 am - 4 pm
Symposium: Poets at Michigan, Then and Now
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Monday, 3 April 2017
7 pm
Reading from The Bird-while
and discussion with illustrator Tom Pohrt
Nicola's Books
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2016
2 - 6 June 2016
Bear River Writer's Conference
Petoskey, Michigan
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Reading
Theodore Roethke House
Saginaw, Michigan
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
6:30 pm
Whiskey & Wit:
Reading with Thomas Lynch and Michael Delp
Great Lake Commonwealth of Letters
Grand Rapids, Michigan
2015
Thursday, 23 July 2015
6 - 8 pm
Reading
Art in the Loft
Alpena, Michigan
Sunday, 14 June 2015
7 pm
Introducing chapbook winner
Interlochen Academy of the Arts Writing House
Interlochen, Michigan
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
6:30 pm
Reading with Charles Brice and Judith Brice
Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters
Grand Rapids, Michigan
28 May - 1 June 2015
Bear River Writers Conference
Walloon Lake, Michigan
Friday, 1 May 2015
7 pm
Launch of new chapbook Fidelities
Literati Bookshop
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thursday, 30 April 2015
6 - 8 pm
Reading
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
Toledo, Ohio
Sunday, 26 April 2015
1 pm
Rivering at The Ark
Music and poetry celebrating the Huron River
The Ark
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Friday, 24 April 2015
Reading to celebrate the publication of the broadside
"To Face the Ordinary"
Landmark Books
Traverse City, Michigan
Saturday, 18 April 2015
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Workshops: Poetry and The Tiny Essay
Rally of Writers
Lansing Community College
Conference Center, West Campus, LCC
Lansing Michigan
Friday, 10 April 2015
noon - 1:15 pm
Reading
Minneapolis Convention Center
Room 101J, Level 1
AWP Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thursday, 9 April 2015
5 pm
Reading with Hanging Loose Authors
Solar Arts Building
AWP Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thursday, 2 April 2015
5 - 7 pm
Painter & Poets Project Unveiling
Reception & Reading
University of Michigan
Institute for the Humanities
Ann Arbor, Michigan
2014
Saturday, 20 September 2014
6:30 - 9 pm
Reading at fundraiser
Everybody Has a Story
South Bend, Indiana
Friday, 22 August 2014
Saturday, 23 August 2014
Into the Wind
Muskegon, Michigan
Thursday, 7 August 2014
6 - 9 pm
Reading
Alpena Poets Nights
Alpena, Michigan
Thursday, 19 June 2014
5:30 - 8 pm
Banquet and Reading
Theodore Roethke House
Saginaw, Michigan
Friday,13 June 2014
5 - 7 pm
Reading with other contributors
Poetry in Michigan, Michigan in Poetry
Dog Ears Books
Northport, Michigan
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
2013
Friday, 4 October 2013
Reading from Ghost Writers
Benzonia District Library
Petoskey, Michigan
Thursday, 30 May -
Monday, 3 June 2013
Bear River Writers' Conference
Petoskey, Michigan
2012
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Celebrating Tagore: Translations through
Music, Dance, and Poetry
University of Michigan
Hill Auditorium
Ann Arbor, Michigan
8 pm
Thursday, 31 May -
Monday, 4 June 2012
Bear River Writers' Conference
Petoskey, Michigan
Monday, 26 March 2012
Reading
Noon Reading Series
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
Friday, 23 March 2012 -
Saturday, 24 March 2012
Details TBD
Translation Conference
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Wednesday, 29 February -
Saturday, 3 March 2012
AWP 2012 Conference
Chicago, Illinois
Friday, 9 am
Conference Presentation:
"Back from the Crash: Michigan Authors
Reflect on Crisis and Renewal"
Location: Continental C, Hilton Chicago
Friday, 11 am
Book Signing: Ghost Writers
Location: Wayne State University Press Booth
at AWP Book Exposition
Friday, noon
Book Signing: Marginalia for a Natural History
Location: Black Lawrence Press Booth
at AWP Book Exposition
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
8:30 pm
PitE Concert: Love Each Other, Love Your Earth – Inspiring Environmental Change through Music and Literature
Featuring two new songs by
Evan Chambers based on Keith Taylor's poems
University of Michigan, Residential College
Keene Auditorium, East Quad
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Monday, 6 February 2012
7 pm
Reading
Wellspring Literary Series
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Thursday, 19 January 2012
7 pm
Presenting Ghost Writers
Bayliss Library
Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
7 pm
Talk on the poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
Chippewa County Historical Society
Sault Ste Marie, Michigan