John Keene. Courtesy Poets & Writers.
John R. Keene Jr. (born 1965) is an African-American poet, translator, and academic.
Life[]
Keene was born in St. Louis, Missouri.[1]
He earned a B.A. from Harvard University 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.
Keene is an Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois.
His debut novel, Annotations, was published by New Directions in 1995. A new collection of poems entitled Seismosis was published by 1913 Press in 2006.[2]
Recognition[]
- 1990 Artists Foundation Fellowship in Fiction (Massachusetts);
- 2003 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (New Jersey);
- 2005 Whiting Foundation Award in Poetry and Fiction
Except where noted, award information courtesy Poets & Writers.[3]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Seismosis. Roanake, VA: 1913 Press, 2006.
Novel[]
- Annotations. New York: New Directions, 1995.
Short fiction[]
- Counternarratives: Stories and novellas. New York: New Directions, 2015.
Non-fiction[]
- Foreword to Hilda Hist, The Obscene Madame D. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books / Rio de Janeiro: A Bolha Editora, 2012.
Translated[]
- Hilda Hist, Letters from a Seducer. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books / Rio de Janeiro: A Bolha Editora, 2014.
The Poetry Center — John Keene, Counternarratives
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ John Keene, New Directions Publishing. Web, Oct. 13, 2015.
- ↑ Bios of 2005 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients - Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Retrieved 9-20-06
- ↑ John Keene, Poets & Writers. Web, Oct. 13, 2015.
- ↑ Search results = au:John Keene 1965, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 13, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Prose
- "Rivers" (short story)
- Audio / video
- Books
- John Keene at Amazon.com
- About
- John R. Keene at New Directions Publishing
- John Keene at the Poetry Foundation
- John Keene at Rutgers University
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