Keith Taylor (poet)

Last updated April 14, 2019

Keith Taylor (born 1952) is a Canadian poet, translator and professor.

Life and work

"In the Presence of Large Predators"

We're sure now: wolves have found their way back
here, to the lower peninsula,

first reported by a park ranger
looking north across the Straits, through snow,
uncertainly watching a gray pair
skitter across the ice, their tracks lost

in the storm, then only a few prints
for years, some scat found twenty miles south,

before a night vision camera
catches a movement, and the lanky legs
massive chest and triangular head,
those green eyes glowing once again

“

”

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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.

Central Michigan University public research university in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States

Central Michigan University (CMU) is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan. Established in 1892, Central Michigan University is one of the largest universities in the state of Michigan and one of the nation's 100 largest public universities. It has more than 20,000 students on its Mount Pleasant campus and 7,000 students enrolled online at more than 60 locations worldwide.

The University of Michigan, often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The university is Michigan's oldest; it was founded in 1817 in Detroit, as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, 20 years before the territory became a state. The school was moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres (16 ha) of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university campus has expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 34 million gross square feet spread out over a Central Campus and North Campus, two regional campuses in Flint and Dearborn, and a Center in Detroit. The university is a founding member of the Association of American Universities.

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 (London). Taylor is the recipient of, among other awards, a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Michigan Quarterly Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

The Notre Dame Review is a national literary magazine. Founded by the University of Notre Dame, it publishes fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction quarterly. The first issue was published in Winter 1995.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. The NEA has its offices in Washington, D.C. It was awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 1995, as well as the Special Tony Award in 2016.

Books

Collections

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, 1995)
Guilty at the Rapture (Hanging Loose Press, 2006)
If the World Becomes so Bright (Wayne State University Press, 2009)
Marginalia for a Natural History (Black Lawrence Press, 2011)
The Ancient Murrelet (Alice Greene & Co., 2013)
Fidelities (Alice Greene & Co., 2015)
The Bird-while (Wayne State University Press, 2017)

Anthologies as editor

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)
Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them ed. Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke (Wayne State University Press, 2011)

Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and poet. She is best known for writing the novels Suspicious River, The Life Before Her Eyes and White Bird in a Blizzard, all of which have been adapted to film.

Translations

Battered Guitars: The Poetry and Prose of Kostas Karyotakis (University of Birmingham, 2006)

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References

↑ "In the Presence of Large Predators". Dunes Review. Volume 15 Issue 2. p.25.

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[1] "In the Presence of Large Predators". Dunes Review. Volume 15 Issue 2. p.25.