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 edit
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 edit
- 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
- Keizer (2004). Help: The Original Human Dilemma. Harper One. ISBN 0060560622.
- Keizer (2002). God of Beer. HarperCollins. ISBN 0060294574.
- Privacy, Picador, 2012
- Keizer, Garret (2010). The unwanted sound of everything we want: a book about noise (1. ed.). New York, NY: Public Affairs. ISBN 9781586485528.
- Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher, Henry Holt, 2014
- The World Pushes Back, Texas Review Press, 2019
Selected articles edit
- 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 edit
- ^ a b c O'Connor, Kevin (2019-09-23). "'Irascible idealist' Garret Keizer's poetic moment". VTDigger. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ "Profile - Garret Keizer - Season 4 - Episode 425". PBS.org. 2005-03-25. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (2012-01-26). "What makes a person lend a helping hand?". SFGATE. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ "'Privacy,' by Garret Keizer". The New York Times. 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ "Garret Keizer Goes Back To School". Vermont Public. 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ "Garret Keizer". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
- ^ University, Sam Houston State. "The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize - Submissions". the Texas Review. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ Keizer, Garret (December 2008). "Of Mohawks and Mavericks". Harper's Magazine. 317 (1903): 9–11.