Keith Taylor, MQR Associate Editor

Profile

Keith Taylor coordinates the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan and directs the Bear River Writers' Conference. He has published his poetry and criticism widely in this country and in Europe, including in The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Hanging Loose, and, of course, Michigan Quarterly Review. Of several books, the most recent is If the World Becomes So Bright (Wayne State University Press, 2009).

Keith Taylor, MQR Associate Editor has written 2 article(s) for MQR.



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03 Jan 2011, Posted by in Blog, 0 Comments Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Book on Planes


by Keith Taylor

We have all participated in the discussion about the new ways of reading, the end of the book, the new literacy, etc., etc., ad infinitum. And things are certainly changing. I’m not going to fight any rear-guard neo-luddite battles. I’ve read the reports in Publishers Weekly and The Chronicle of Higher Education. The change has happened. So I thought I would pay attention during some holiday traveling this year, and try to see what, if anything, people might be reading on planes and in airports.

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01 Dec 2010, Posted by in Blog, 1 Comments Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

First Editions in Hand


by Keith Taylor

When my daughter called from college to talk about coming home for Thanksgiving, she mentioned in passing that she’d just seen something she thought I might enjoy at the library—a display of first edition poetry books, including a first edition of Paradise Lost. Now I readily admit that Milton has been one of my blind spots, one of the few pieces of canonical literature I haven’t warmed to, although I keep trying and I think I’m getting closer. Still I thought I might like to see this book.

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