Keith Taylor has authored or edited 18 books and chapbooks, the most recent of which, published in 2021, is Let Them Be Left: Isle Royale Poems. His last full length collection, The Bird-while was published by Wayne State University Press and won the Bronze medal for the Foreword/Indies Poetry Book of the Year. He has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, among others. After a series of mostly menial but formative jobs, he worked for most of twenty years as a bookseller, before teaching for a few years in the writing programs at the University of Michigan.

"Publication of Keith Taylor’s All the Time You Wantis an important event. Everyone who has been listening for years to thisessential poetic voice has reason to rejoice anew. Taylor’s arguments in favorof the ordinary communal life—earning a living, being part of a family,engaging in all the things we do to sustain ourselves—introduce us to a deepand quiet understanding of how life works, reminding us that “We’re too busy tobe saints.” And in his poems about the natural world, he has created a spaceone enters gladly, with joy in one’s heart. Reading this book is like opening adoor outward into a realm whose refreshment we find we are badly in need of,even if we have forgotten how much we really do need it." —RichardTillinghast, author of Blue If Only I Could Tell You and Journeysinto the Mind of the World: A Book of Places.Past Praise for Keith Taylor“Taylor delights readers with tight flashes of insight…The appeal here is Taylor’s ability to cast a line and reel the reader in with just a few sentences, then do it again and again.” – Starred review in Publishers Weekly

Keith Taylor has authored or edited 18 books and chapbooks, the most recent of which, published in 2021, is Let Them Be Left: Isle Royale Poems. His last full length collection, The Bird-while was published by Wayne State University Press and won the Bronze medal for the Foreword/Indies Poetry Book of the Year. He has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, among others. After a series of mostly menial but formative jobs, he worked for most of twenty years as a bookseller, before teaching for a few years in the writing programs at the University of Michigan.

"Publication of Keith Taylor’s All the Time You Wantis an important event. Everyone who has been listening for years to thisessential poetic voice has reason to rejoice anew. Taylor’s arguments in favorof the ordinary communal life—earning a living, being part of a family,engaging in all the things we do to sustain ourselves—introduce us to a deepand quiet understanding of how life works, reminding us that “We’re too busy tobe saints.” And in his poems about the natural world, he has created a spaceone enters gladly, with joy in one’s heart. Reading this book is like opening adoor outward into a realm whose refreshment we find we are badly in need of,even if we have forgotten how much we really do need it." —RichardTillinghast, author of Blue If Only I Could Tell You and Journeysinto the Mind of the World: A Book of Places.Past Praise for Keith Taylor“Taylor delights readers with tight flashes of insight…The appeal here is Taylor’s ability to cast a line and reel the reader in with just a few sentences, then do it again and again.” – Starred review in Publishers Weekly

Keith Taylor has authored or edited 18 books and chapbooks, the most recent of which, published in 2021, is Let Them Be Left: Isle Royale Poems. His last full length collection, The Bird-while was published by Wayne State University Press and won the Bronze medal for the Foreword/Indies Poetry Book of the Year. He has received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, among others. After a series of mostly menial but formative jobs, he worked for most of twenty years as a bookseller, before teaching for a few years in the writing programs at the University of Michigan.

"Publication of Keith Taylor’s All the Time You Wantis an important event. Everyone who has been listening for years to thisessential poetic voice has reason to rejoice anew. Taylor’s arguments in favorof the ordinary communal life—earning a living, being part of a family,engaging in all the things we do to sustain ourselves—introduce us to a deepand quiet understanding of how life works, reminding us that “We’re too busy tobe saints.” And in his poems about the natural world, he has created a spaceone enters gladly, with joy in one’s heart. Reading this book is like opening adoor outward into a realm whose refreshment we find we are badly in need of,even if we have forgotten how much we really do need it." —RichardTillinghast, author of Blue If Only I Could Tell You and Journeysinto the Mind of the World: A Book of Places.Past Praise for Keith Taylor“Taylor delights readers with tight flashes of insight…The appeal here is Taylor’s ability to cast a line and reel the reader in with just a few sentences, then do it again and again.” – Starred review in Publishers Weekly