Garret Keizer
{{Short description|American writer and poet}}
Garret Keizer (born 1953) is an American author, poet and essayist.
Keizer was born in New Jersey and studied English at Montclair State University.{{cite web | last=O'Connor | first=Kevin | title=‘Irascible idealist’ Garret Keizer’s poetic moment | website=VTDigger | date=2019-09-23 | url=https://vtdigger.org/2019/09/23/irascible-idealist-garret-keizers-poetic-moment/ | access-date=2023-03-26}} He moved to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom in 1979 when he was 26. He lives with his family in Sutton, Vermont.{{cite web | title=Profile - Garret Keizer - Season 4 - Episode 425 | website=PBS.org | date=2005-03-25 | url=https://www.pbs.org/video/garret-keizer-0lqs5d/ | access-date=2023-03-26}}
Keizer has written numerous critically acclaimed books.{{cite web | last=Lewis-Kraus | first=Gideon | title=What makes a person lend a helping hand? | website=SFGATE | date=2012-01-26 | url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/what-makes-a-person-lend-a-helping-hand-2716863.php | access-date=2023-03-26}}{{cite web | title=‘Privacy,’ by Garret Keizer | website=The New York Times | date=2012-09-07 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/books/review/privacy-by-garret-keizer.html | access-date=2023-03-26}} He is also a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine. He has served as an Episcopal priest and a high school English teacher.{{cite web | title=Garret Keizer Goes Back To School | website=Vermont Public | date=2014-08-21 | url=https://www.vermontpublic.org/programs/2014-08-21/garret-keizer-goes-back-to-school | access-date=2023-03-26}}
Honors and awards
Keizer was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.{{cite web | title=Garret Keizer | website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | date=2014-07-27 | url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/garret-keizer/ | access-date=2023-03-25}} His first published book of poetry, The World Pushes Back, won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize in 2018.{{cite web | last=University | first=Sam Houston State | title=The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize - Submissions | website=the Texas Review | url=http://www.thetexasreview.org/submissions/x-j-kennedy-poetry-prize | access-date=2023-03-26}} He was inducted into the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
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
- {{cite book|last1=Keizer|title=Help: The Original Human Dilemma|publisher=Harper One|year=2004|isbn=0060560622}}
- {{cite book|last1=Keizer|title=God of Beer|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2002|isbn=0060294574}}
- Privacy, Picador, 2012
- {{cite book |last1=Keizer |first1=Garret |title=The unwanted sound of everything we want: a book about noise |date=2010 |publisher=Public Affairs |location=New York, NY |isbn=9781586485528 |edition=1.}}
- Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher, Henry Holt, 2014
- The World Pushes Back, Texas Review Press, 2019
Selected articles
- [http://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/page/0011 Requiem for the Private Word] - Harper's Magazine - August 2008
- [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/0081720 Specific suggestion: General strike] - Harper's Magazine - October 2007
- [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/03/left-right-wrong Left, Right and Wrong] - Mother Jones - March/April 2005
- [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2001/03/0070561 Sound and Fury] - Harper's Magazine'' - March 2001
- [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2005/02/page/0055 Life Everlasting] - Harper's Magazine - February 2005
- [http://harpers.org/archive/2006/12/0081289 Loaded] - Harper's Magazine - December 2006{{cite journal |last=Keizer |first=Garret |date= December 2008|title=Of Mohawks and Mavericks |journal=Harper's Magazine |volume= 317|issue=1903 |pages=9–11}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.garretkeizer.com Garret Keizer’s official website]
- {{C-SPAN|9272220}}
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