Wonderful thoughts from Keguro Macharia on the poetry of #JohnKeene. I was just thinking about Keene yesterday, since I was teaching Samuel R. Delany's "Atlantis: Model 1924," which that was inspired by Keene's *Annotations*.

https://open.substack.com/pub/keguro/p/john-keenes-memory-work?r=xn47s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

A conversation with John R. Keene - Kelly Writers House Fellows Program

JOHN R. KEENE, born in St. Louis in 1965, is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, translator, and professor best known for his fictions, Annotations (1995, New Directions) and Counternarratives (2015, New Directions).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRrq0GHg_MQ

#JohnKeene #Counternaratives #books #Bookstodon #NewDirectionsbooks

This award-winning poem was written for the Pulse shooting victims. It's sadly relevant again

#orlandoshooting #pulsepoem #johnkeene
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/us/shootings-lgbtq-pulse-poem-john-keene-cec/index.html