John Keene (poet)

Write the first paragraph of your page here. John R. Keene Jr. (born 1965) is a writer, translator and Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois, United States. He has a B.A. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from New York University. He was a longtime member of the Dark Room Collective, an organization that from 1988 to 1998 celebrated and gave greater visibility to emerging and established writers of color. His first novel, Annotations, was published by New Directions in 1995. A new collection of poems entitled Seismosis was published by 1913 Press in 2006.

Publications

 * Annotations. New York: New Directions, 1995.
 * Seismosis (with artist Christopher Stackhouse). 2006.