John Keene

John Keene is the author of Annotations and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions. His most recent book, Punks: New & Selected Poems, received the National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is the Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.

John Keene

John Keene is the author of Annotations and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions. His most recent book, Punks: New & Selected Poems, received the National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is the Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.

Books by John Keene

  • Counternarratives

    John Keene

    Paperback, 2016

    Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly)
  • Counternarratives

    John Keene

    E Book, 2016

    Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly)
  • Conversation of the Three Wayfarers

    Peter Weiss, E.B. Garside, John Keene

    Paperback, 2022

    This fast-moving, tightly-wound, and gleefully dark novella contains an entire universe in miniature
  • Conversation of the Three Wayfarers

    Peter Weiss, E.B. Garside, John Keene

    E Book, 2022

    This fast-moving, tightly-wound, and gleefully dark novella contains an entire universe in miniature
  • Love is a Dangerous Word: the Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill

    Essex Hemphill, John Keene, Robert F. Reid-Pharr

    Paperback, 2024

    The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection
  • Love is a Dangerous Word: the Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill

    Essex Hemphill, John Keene, Robert F. Reid-Pharr

    E Book

    The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection