“…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 is the author, editor, or translator of 20 books. He is the A.L. Becker Collegiate Lecturer in English, Emeritus, at the University of Michigan.
Recent publications:
- What Can the Matter Be? published by Wayne State University Press in 2024
- All the Time You Want: Selected Poems, 1977–2017 was published by Dzanc Books in 2024
- Let Them Be Left, poems from Isle Royale published by Alice Greene & Co. in 2021
- Ecstatic Destinations was published by Alice Greene & Co in in 2018
- The Bird-while, was published by Wayne State University Press in 2017
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.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday, 23 March 2025
2 pm
Poetry Reading of Ekphrastic Poems
Inspired by WSG art
WSG Gallery
111 E. Ann
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
6 pm
Poets and Pies
with Irene Wellman, Keith Taylor,
Nancy Shattuck, and Stephen Leggett
Detroit Public Library
5201 Woodward Ave
Detroit, Michigan
Thursday, 17 April 2025
6 pm
Poetry Reading
with Nandi Comer and M. Bartley Seigel
to celebrate Matt's book In the Bone-Cracking Cold
Literati Bookstore
124 E. Washington
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
7 pm
Poetry Reading
A Celebration of Poetry
Brighton Public Library
100 Library Drive
Brighton, Michigan
Saturday, 26 April 2025
4:30–9 pm
Night for Notables Celebration
Michigan Notable Books 2025
Library of Michigan
702 W. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, Michigan
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