ESCANABA — On Tuesday, May 20 at 5:30 p.m. EST, the library will host 2025 the Michigan Notable Author Tour with Keith Taylor and his new book, What Can the Matter Be? Poems by Keith Taylor.

Keith Taylor’s book is a collection that explores themes of aging, death, and place, offering reflections on both personal and global scales.

Through poems and prose, Taylor showcases his keen observational skills and deep appreciation for nature, while balancing serious themes with moments of humor and joy. The work invites empathy and contemplation, urging readers to reflect on life’s fleeting nature and the interconnectedness of all things.

About the Author–Keith Taylor was born in British Columbia in 1952. He spent his childhood in Alberta and his adolescence in Indiana. After several years of traveling, he moved to Michigan, where he earned his M.A. in English at Central Michigan University. He has worked as a camp-boy for a hunting outfitter in the Yukon, as a dishwasher in southern France, a housepainter in Indiana and Ireland, a freight handler, a teacher, a freelance writer, the co-host of a radio talk show, and as the night attendant at a pinball arcade in California. For more than

twenty years he worked as a bookseller in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Then he taught in the undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs at the University of Michigan

No registration is required for this event, and all ages are welcome.

This project is funded by the Michigan Humanities, the Michigan Center for the Book, the Library of Michigan Foundation, and the Friends of the Escanaba Public Library.