Deborah Keenan

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

Life

She is an editor for Milkweed Editions.[1] She also teaches at Hamline University.[2] 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[3]
• 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

1. Robert Hedin, ed. (2007). Where one voice ends another begins: 150 years of Minnesota poetry. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-87351-584-9.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2012-09-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-01-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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