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

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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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c O'Connor, Kevin (2019-09-23). "'Irascible idealist' Garret Keizer's poetic moment". VTDigger. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  2. ^ "Profile - Garret Keizer - Season 4 - Episode 425". PBS.org. 2005-03-25. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  3. ^ Lewis-Kraus, Gideon (2012-01-26). "What makes a person lend a helping hand?". SFGATE. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  4. ^ "'Privacy,' by Garret Keizer". The New York Times. 2012-09-07. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  5. ^ "Garret Keizer Goes Back To School". Vermont Public. 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  6. ^ "Garret Keizer". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  7. ^ University, Sam Houston State. "The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize - Submissions". the Texas Review. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
  8. ^ Keizer, Garret (December 2008). "Of Mohawks and Mavericks". Harper's Magazine. 317 (1903): 9–11.
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