Garret Keizer

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.^[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
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

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

^ ^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.