Guides: Kelly Writers House Fellows 2019: John Keene

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Annotations by John Keene
Call Number: Van Pelt PS3561.E3717 A82 1995
ISBN: 0811213048
Publication Date: 1995
Keene’s experimental novel examines growing up Black in St. Louis. Keene explores questions of identity including race, social class, and sexuality.
Counternarratives by John Keene
Call Number: Van Pelt PS3561.E3717 A6 2015
ISBN: 9780811224345
Publication Date: 2015
"Structured chronologically, from the arrival of the first immigrant to Mannahatta in 1613 to our abstracted now, the book reads as a shadow history of modernity, of its reasons and unreasons. Paralleling this arc, the struggle for voice—voice qua subjectivity—threads through the collection, through the silences, constrictions, compromises, and revolutions." From Brick 97 "The Review: Counternarratives by John Keene."
Seismosis by John Keene; Christopher Stackhouse
Call Number: Van Pelt PS3561.E3717 S45 2003
ISBN: 0977935108
Publication Date: 2006
This poetry collection highlights African American Studies, art and line drawings by Stackhouse and poems-as-essays by John Keene.
Letters from a Seducer by Hilda Hilst; John Keene (Translator); Bruno Carvalho (Contribution by)
Call Number: Van Pelt PQ9697.H5 C3713 2014
ISBN: 9781937658151
Publication Date: 2014
Keene translates Hilst’s "In Letters from a Seducer," in which Karl, an erudite and amoral man, writes letters to Cordelia, his chaste sister. The letters' text intertwine with the life of the poet Stamatius.
Grind by John Keene; Nicholas Muellner (Artist)
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. PS3561.E3717 G75 2016.
ISBN: 9780996735124
Publication Date: 2016
An art-text collaboration between poet John Keene and photographer Nicholas Muellner. In this mixed-media creation, GRIND's authors explore contemporary queer dating sites.

John Keene

February 11-12, 2019

A Reading & Conversation with John Keene

A reading and discussion of John Keene's novel, Counternarratives.

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Works about John Keene

Works by John Keene

Awards & Recognitions

2018 MacArthur Fellow

Learn more about John's work at the MacArthur Foundation.

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Whiting Writers Award

2005 Winner in Fiction, Poetry

The Whitney Award if an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetrys and plays.

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Check out Jack Jones Literary Art for several other prestigious awards granted to John.

Learn more about John...

Associate Professor of English, Chair of Department of African American and African studies at Rutgers-Newark.
New Directions Publishing: John Keene
Interviews:
- Check out Bookforum's interview of John by Matthew Shen Goodman.
- No Whitewash: An Interview with John Keene by The Offing.
- An Interview by Drew Bevis at Breakwater.
- Mosaic: Literary Arts of the Diaspora - John Keene: Interview
- Project Muse: An Interview with John Keene.
- With David Naimon at Between the Covers Podcast from KBOO 90.7 FM (Portland, Oregon)
John Keene reading his poetry at the Bowery Club, NYC. Recording at Penn Sound, Scroll to February 19, 2005