2025 Michigan Notable Author Tour with Keith Taylor
Join us on Tuesday, May 20 at 5:30 p.m. for a 2025 Michigan Notable Author Tour Talk with Notable Author, Keith Taylor, and his new book, What Can the Matter Be? Poems By Keith Taylor
Keith Taylor’s “What Can the Matter Be?” is a collection that explores themes of aging, death, and place, offering reflections on both personal and global scales. Through poems and prose, Taylor showcases his keen observational skills and deep appreciation for nature, while balancing serious themes with moments of humor and joy. The work invites empathy and contemplation, urging readers to reflect on life’s fleeting nature and the interconnectedness of all things.
No registrations is required. All ages are welcome.
This event is made possible with the support of the Michigan Humanities, the Michigan Center for the Book, the Library of Michigan Foundation, and the Friends of the Escanaba Public Library.
About the Author
Keith Taylor was born in British Columbia in 1952. He spent his childhood in Alberta and his adolescence in Indiana. After several years of traveling, he moved to Michigan, where he earned his M.A. in English at Central Michigan University. He has worked as a camp-boy for a hunting outfitter in the Yukon, as a dishwasher in southern France, a housepainter in Indiana and Ireland, a freight handler, a teacher, a freelance writer, the co-host of a radio talk show, and as the night attendant at a pinball arcade in California. For more than twenty years he worked as a bookseller in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Then he taught in the undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs at the University of Michigan, and directed the Bear River Writers Conference. From 2010–2018 he worked as the Poetry Editor at Michigan Quarterly Review. He retired from the University of Michigan in 2018. He lives with his wife in Ann Arbor; they have one daughter.
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