Garret Keizer Explained

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. 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

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.

Authored books

• 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
• Book: Keizer. Help: The Original Human Dilemma. Harper One. 2004. 0060560622.
• Book: Keizer. God of Beer. HarperCollins. 2002. 0060294574.
• Privacy, Picador, 2012
• Book: Keizer . Garret . The unwanted sound of everything we want: a book about noise . 2010 . Public Affairs . New York, NY . 9781586485528 . 1..
• Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher, Henry Holt, 2014
• The World Pushes Back, Texas Review Press, 2019

Selected articles

• Requiem for the Private Word - Harper's Magazine - August 2008
• Specific suggestion: General strike - Harper's Magazine - October 2007
• Left, Right and Wrong - Mother Jones - March/April 2005
• Sound and Fury - Harper's Magazine - March 2001
• Life Everlasting - Harper's Magazine - February 2005
• Loaded - Harper's Magazine - December 2006^[8]

External links

• Garret Keizer’s official website

Notes and References

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