Keith Taylor (poet)
Keith Taylor (born 1952) is a Canadian poet, translator and professor.
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[edit] Personal life
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 currently lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and daughter.
[edit] Professional life
After twenty years of working at Shaman Drum, a leading independent bookstore, Taylor is now a professor in the creative writing program at University of Michigan. His poems have appeared in many journals, The Ann Arbor Observer, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Birding, Caliban, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Fourth Genre, Hanging Loose, The Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Times, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mondo Greco, New Letters, The Notre Dame Review, Phoebe, Pivot, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Greece, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Southern Review, Story, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine (London), Witness, The Wooster Review. Taylor is the recipient of, among other awards, a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
[edit] Works
Poetry and Short Stories
Learning to Dance (Falling Water Books, 1985)
Weather Report (Ridgeway Press, 1988)
Dream of the Black Wolf: Notes from Isle Royale (Ridgeway Press, 1993)
Detail from the Garden of Delights (Limited Mailing Press, 1993)
Everything I Need (March Street Press, 1996)
Life Science and Other Stories (Hanging Loose Press in 1995)
Guilty at the Rapture (Hanging Loose Press 2006)
If the World Becomes so Bright (Wayne State University Press, 2009)
Anthologies
The Huron River: Voices from the Watershed ed. Keith Taylor and John Knott (The University of Michigan Press, 2000)
What These Ithakas Mean: Readings in Cavafy ed. Artemis Leontis, Lauren Talalay, and Keith Taylor (Athens, Greece: E.L.I.A., 2002)
Translations
Battered Guitars: The Poetry and Prose of Kostas Karyotakis (University of Birmingham, 2006)
