Garret Keizer
Template:Short description Garret Keizer (born 1953) is an American author, poet and essayist.
Keizer was born in New Jersey and studied English at Montclair State University.[1] He moved to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom in 1979 when he was 26.[1] He lives with his family in Sutton, Vermont.[2]
Keizer has written numerous critically acclaimed books.[3][4] He is also a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine. He has served as an Episcopal priest and a high school English teacher.[5]
Honors and awards
Keizer was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.[6] His first published book of poetry, The World Pushes Back, won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize in 2018.[7] He was inducted into the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.[1]
Authored books
- No Place But Here: A Teacher's Vocation in a Rural Community, Viking, 1988
- The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin, Jossey-Bass, 2002
- A Dresser of Sycamore Trees: The Finding of A Ministry, Viking, 1991
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- Privacy, Picador, 2012
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- Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher, Henry Holt, 2014
- The World Pushes Back, Texas Review Press, 2019
Selected articles
- Requiem for the Private Word - Harper's Magazine - August 2008
- Specific suggestion: General strike - Harper's Magazine - October 2007
- Left, Right and Wrong - Mother Jones - March/April 2005
- Sound and Fury - Harper's Magazine - March 2001
- Life Everlasting - Harper's Magazine - February 2005
- Loaded - Harper's Magazine - December 2006[8]
References
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