Deborah Keenan

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Name Deborah Keenan Role Poet		Awards American Book Awards


Books Willow Room - Green Do, Good Heart, Looking for Home, Happiness: Poems, Household wounds

Deborah Keenan GTCPR 2012

Deborah Keenan (born 1950 in Minneapolis) is an American poet.

Deborah Keenan Beloved Hamline teacher Deborah Keenan retires but the poet writes

When The Dead Come To Visit In Dreams

Life

She is an editor for Milkweed Editions. She also teaches at Hamline University. She lives with her husband, Stephen Seidel, who is director of urban programs for Habitat for Humanity. They have four children.

Awards

Bush Foundation Fellowships for her poetry

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

The Loft McKnight Poet of Distinction award

2006-2007 Edelstein Keller Minnesota author of Distinction at the University of Minnesota

1991 American Book Award

Works

One Angel Then, Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1981

Household Wounds, New Rivers Press, 1981, ISBN 978-0-89823-022-2

The Only Window That Counts, New Rivers Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-89823-069-7

How We Missed Belgium, Milkweed Editions, 1984, ISBN 978-0-915943-02-9 (written with Jim Moore)

Happiness: poems. Coffee House Press. 1995. ISBN 978-1-56689-033-5.

Good heart, Milkweek Editions, 2003, ISBN 9781571314154

Kingdoms, Laurel Poetry Collective, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9787973-1-7

Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems, March, 2007, Milkweed Editions. ISBN 978-1-57131-426-0

Editor

Looking For Home: Women Writing About Exile, editors Deborah Keenan, Roseann Lloyd, Milkweed Editions, 1990, ISBN 978-0-915943-45-6

Anthology

Robert Hedin, ed. (2007). "The Amateur; Dialogue; None of This". Where one voice ends another begins: 150 years of Minnesota poetry. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-87351-584-9.

References

Deborah Keenan Wikipedia

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