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browse a sampling of online poems, readings, interviews, mixed media appearances:
featured media:
“Beloved Hamline teacher Deborah Keenan retires, but the poet writes on”, a feature from Mary Ann Grossmann, at TwinCities.com. Read here.
Part of the Probing Metaphors of Home series, “Exploring Home as Place” through Poetry and Collage, Wisdom Ways Center.
Featured in a literary evening framed around spring, imagination, spirit, and the joys of community. with Michael Dennis Browne, Angela Shannon and musician Laura MacKenzie.
Hamline MFA faculty showcase, featuring readings by Deborah Keenan, Patricia Francisco, Sun Young Shin, John Colburn, Angela Pelster-Weibe, and a film by Richard Pelster-Weibe.
Featured artist and poet at Gallery One Tractor Works, along with works of art and poems by many fabulous artists and writers, including Georgia Greeley, Tammy Darrah Wenberg, Michael Kiesow Moore, and Nena Johansson.
Poems from so she had the world, my new chapbook collaboration with painter Susan Solomon, nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Artist Wayne Nelsen has interpreted Deborah’s poem, “Grief,” and an excerpt from “Grace,” featuring Deborah’s collage art, in two arresting new videos available on his YouTube channel.
Both poems are read by Deborah, with music by Bill Reichelt. See An Excerpt from “Grace” here. And “Grief” here.
Find “Manifesting Our Illusions,” by Shelly Love, an in-depth review/profile of Deborah’s newest, so she had the world, at Indie Reader blog.
From Tiger to Prayer featured on MNArtists.org, story by Alison Morse. The feature was reprinted in the spring 2014 issue of Rain Taxi Review.
Poem “One of the Old Songs” featured on the Poem in a Box blog
Libretto, “Positive,” (a work about living, not dying, with HIV), was performed in February 2012 at the VocalPoint Inaugural Concert.
Writer Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and the column Dear Sugar, talking about the poem “The Amatuer” (from The Only Window That Counts), The Rumpus.
Deborah was interviewed for a featured story in the Winter 2012 St. Olaf Magazine on Holly Harden and her work as a writer for Garrison Keillor.
Three poems (“Summer Wind in Autumn”, “So Much Like a Beach After All”, “Chasing the Harvest Moon”) published in the summer 2011 isssue of Sleet Magazine.
Poem “Burchfield in the Moonlight” published in Midway Journal.
Speaker at Hamline University’s Convocation, which focused on how students are at the center of Hamline’s mission. Read full text.
Interview with Deborah on the Nine to Five Poet blog.
Lines from “Small History” were featured in the February 2009 issue of O Magazine.
Headlined Gustavus Library Associations’ Spring Author Day 2009 with Joyce Sutphen.
“Reading and Discussion Guide” for Willow Room, Green Door (Minnesota Book Award winner) from Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library.
Poem “A Tree is Not a Human Thing” featured on Beatrice blog.
Poem “Folds of White Dress / Shaft of Light” featured for Poetry Friday at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast blog.
Poem “Maybe He’s Grateful But Get Out of His way” featured on poets.org.
Named one of the 2003 “Artists of the Year” in City Pages Magazine, nominated by Katherine Lanpher.
Good Heart reviewed, my work discussed in “The Coma Factor,” an essay by Su Smallen, at Smartish Pace Literary Magazine.
Featured on MPR’s Midmorning in a segment titled “Drama of the Ordinary,” with Katherine Lanpher. Audio at Midmorning archive page, scroll to bottom; play with RealPlayer
Deborah interviewed poet Elizabeth Alexander along with student Diane LeBlanc for the Water~Stone Review literary magazine.
“Collages and Pythagoras,” a public show of collages, with Lisa Gaal at Unity Church, December 5 – 29, 2003, lithographs.
Featured poet, with sixteen printed poems, at Three Candles Journal.
featured media:
Poem by Deborah Keenan. From “Willow Room, Green Door.” Published by Milkweed Editions. Music by Bill Reichelt. Animation by Wayne Nelsen.
Poem by Deborah Keenan from “The Only Window That Counts.” Published by New Rivers Press. Collages by Deborah Keenan. Music by Bill Reichelt. Animation by Wayne Nelsen.
Poem by Deborah Keenan, from “The Only Window That Counts.” Published by New Rivers Press. Music by Bill Reichelt. Animation by Wayne Nelsen.
Back in 1981 Deborah Keenan had just published her first book of poetry when she appeared on KTCA’s Nighttimes Magazine to read her poem “What Will Last.”