Keith Taylor (poet)
Keith Taylor is a Canadian poet, translator and professor.Life and work
Born in British Columbia, Taylor spent his childhood in Alberta and Indiana. After earning an M.A. in English from Central Michigan University, he worked a variety of odd jobs: the co-host of a radio talk show, a house painter, a freight handler, a teacher, a freelance writer. He also worked at Shaman Drum, a leading independent bookstore, for twenty years. He currently lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and daughter and is a professor in the creative writing program at University of Michigan.
His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Ann Arbor Observer, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Los Angeles Times, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Notre Dame Review, ' Poetry Ireland Review, and The Sunday Telegraph Magazine . Taylor is the recipient of, among other awards, a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.Books
Collections
- Learning to Dance
- Weather Report
- Dream of the Black Wolf: Notes from Isle Royale
- Detail from the Garden of Delights
- Everything I Need
- Life Science and Other Stories
- Guilty at the Rapture
- If the World Becomes so Bright
- Marginalia for a Natural History
- The Ancient Murrelet
- Fidelities
- The Bird-while
Anthologies as editor
- The Huron River: Voices from the Watershed ed. Keith Taylor and John Knott
- What These Ithakas Mean: Readings in Cavafy ed. Artemis Leontis, Lauren Talalay, and Keith Taylor
- Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them ed. Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke
Translations
Battered Guitars: The Poetry and Prose of Kostas Karyotakis
