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    John Keene

    John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including Annotations (1995) and Counternarratives (2015), both published by New Directions. Counternarratives received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK), and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His most recent publication, Punks: New & Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021),received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is Distinguished Professor and serves as department chair at Rutgers University-Newark

    John Keene

    John Keene is the author, co-author, and translator of a handful of books, including Annotations (1995) and Counternarratives (2015), both published by New Directions. Counternarratives received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Republic of Consciousness Prize (UK), and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. His most recent publication, Punks: New & Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021),received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is Distinguished Professor and serves as department chair 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, 2025

      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

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