Deborah Keenan Explained

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 the 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,
• The Only Window That Counts, New Rivers Press, 1985,
• How We Missed Belgium, Milkweed Editions, 1984, (written with Jim Moore)
• Book: Happiness: poems. Coffee House Press. 1995. 978-1-56689-033-5 .
• Good heart, Milkweek Editions, 2003,
• Kingdoms, Laurel Poetry Collective, 2006,
• Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems, March, 2007, Milkweed Editions.

Editor

• Looking For Home: Women Writing About Exile, editors Deborah Keenan, Roseann Lloyd, Milkweed Editions, 1990,

Anthology

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=fGIJN56SoEgC&q=Deborah%20Keenan&pg=PA132. Where one voice ends another begins: 150 years of Minnesota poetry. Robert Hedin. Minnesota Historical Society. 2007. 978-0-87351-584-9. The Amateur; Dialogue; None of This .

Notes and References

1. Book: Where one voice ends another begins: 150 years of Minnesota poetry. Robert Hedin. Minnesota Historical Society. 2007. 978-0-87351-584-9 .
2. Web site: Deborah Keenan | the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline | Hamline University . 2012-09-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305070837/http://www.hamline.edu/HUContent.aspx?pageid=4294971244 . 2016-03-05 . dead .
3. Web site: Deborah Keenan wins a Minnesota Book Award . 2010-01-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100528050129/http://www.hamline.edu/shared/news_items/gls/keenan_mnbookaward.html . 2010-05-28 . dead .