P.d. Keenen

Keenen practices peace and intersectional empathy in their work and life. Their work focuses on compassionate candor to witness the constellations of conflict within ourselves and the world. Their writing focuses on cognitive dissonance, shared humanity, and things in shadow that crave attention and recognition.

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UPCOMING EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Keenen will host the fifth annual ‘Lightning Readings by Writer to Writer Alumni’, an Alumni-hosted event for past Writer to Writer reading participants in Spring 2025.

PAST EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Keenen hosted the fourth annual ‘Lightning Readings by Writer to Writer Alumni’ at #AWP24 in Kansas City, MO on Saturday, February 10th.
• Keenen hosted a #NanoWriMo23 artist, writer, activist, and human co-working group to give folx a place to be in a community of care as they create their projects during November.
• Keenen hosted a daily poetry prompt and reading suggestion at “Practice Makes Better” on Substack for 2023 National Poetry Month.
• Keenen hosted the third annual (hiatus during COVID) ‘Lightning Readings by Writer to Writer Alumni’ at #AWP23 in Seattle on Saturday, March 11th at the Bookfair stage.
• Keenen moderated “Creativity and Chronic Illness: Accessibility, Privacy, and Productivity” at #AWP20 in San Antonio on Friday, March 6th.
• Keenen hosted the second annual Writer to Writer Alumni reading at #AWP20 in San Antonio on Saturday, March 7th.
• Keenen hosted an organizing circle of 60 writers that submitted sixteen panels and had two accepted to #AWP20: “Creativity and Chronic Illness: Accessibility, Privacy, and Productivity” and “Finding and Keeping a Solid Mentorship: A Guide for the Writing Odyssey.”
• Keenen created the first annual ‘Lightning Readings by Writer to Writer Alumni’. They hosted and participated in the event at #AWP19 in Portland, OR.
• Keenen had an ekphrastic poem published at an art museum.
• Keenen left social media to focus on empathy activism. Find them on their new website pdkeenen.com.
• Keenen launched a postcard project around reclaiming anticipation.
• Keenen was selected for the Season 3/2015 Fall Session of AWP’s Writer to Writer Program working with Minal Hajratwala.
• Keenen was selected to be a found poetry scout and reader during #AWP15 at the Found Poetry Review JamPoRee.
• Keenen read from their poem in Mare Nostrum X at the book launch at Hugo House in Seattle, WA.
• Keenen was selected as an official #AWP15 Poetry Scout for the Found Poetry Review.
• Keenen had a poem published in Mare Nostrum X.