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December 30, 2025

The Monarch of Metamorphosis

I lie on my queen bed or do I lay with my queen? Does my bedroom monarch lay or lie on me? As a monarch butterfly perches on my kingly […]

December 30, 2025

Fatherhood Growing

The first time I lied to our daughter, I declared “you can do whatever a man does.” Words shot out like a pressurized sprinkler onto her freshly formed frame. The […]

December 18, 2025

Grocery Store Slaughter

In a grocery storeoff Tenderloin Road,a venison strutsto the meat display displayed like a photoshootmodel hungryfor a juicy tenderloin. Wait. Does a venison or deer strut? I got it. Behind […]

November 23, 2025

You Step into an Oakland Day

On a neighborhood sidewalk cracked by finger roots, I spot you through the MLK Café window where your feet hook into MLK Way down the block from Marcus Books. […]

November 9, 2025

In the Heart

In the Heart and Vascular Center waiting room, a Malaysian woman from Reno with a face filled with stories throws a nod my way. “What brings you here?” “My […]

November 9, 2025

A Pushy Oakland Wind Almost Pushed Me

into a dead raccoon sprawled over a dying oak tree’s finger roots wrapping around feral decomposition at 26th & Telegraph 2 blocks from where I hunt down my dreams on […]

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Monetized Happiness is a poetry collection that shows economic disparity, homelessness, parenthood, and urban living in Oakland and San Francisco, California. American happiness is monetized. When people sleep on sidewalks and others sleep under roofs, are we living in an equal country? A reader is left to decide on their own.

POETRY BOOKS

“To my mind, Monetized Happiness is Keith Gaboury’s best book yet, a poetic opera to Oakland and San Francisco.”

Richard Loranger, author of Mammal and Unit of Agency

"Still Human is a boundary-defying romp—visceral, surreal, full of animals and erasures, personified body parts, and gritty confessions."

Hollie Hardy, author of Lions Like Us and How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems

"Gaboury’s ambitious, lofty poems [in The Cosmos is Alive] celebrate science fiction from its pulpy beginnings to its futureless present."

Peter Jay Shippy, author of How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic

"The Boy Born With a Pinhole Heart is a moving collection dealing with family history, particularly a grandfather’s heroism and decline."

John Skoyles, author of Suddenly It’s Evening: Selected Poems

"The compelling prose poems in Oakland, I’m Not Dead are infused with surreal imagery, humor, and memorable vignettes."

Terry Tierney, author of The Poet’s Garage and Why Trees Stay Outside

POETRY SERVICES

POETRY EVENTS

United States

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

At the monthly The Imaginary Gardens Poetry Workshop, we workshop our poems together in community. IMPORTANT: we use Google Docs (docs.google.com) to workshop our poetry. To RSVP, please email support@keithgaboury.com […]

United States

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

At the monthly Here For The Flowers Poetry Workshop, we workshop our poems together in community. IMPORTANT: we use Google Docs (docs.google.com) to workshop our poetry. To RSVP, please email […]

United States

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

At the monthly The Imaginary Gardens Poetry Workshop, we workshop our poems together in community. IMPORTANT: we use Google Docs (docs.google.com) to workshop our poetry. To RSVP, please email support@keithgaboury.com […]

United States

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

At the monthly Here For The Flowers Poetry Workshop, we workshop our poems together in community. IMPORTANT: we use Google Docs (docs.google.com) to workshop our poetry. To RSVP, please email […]

United States

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

At the monthly The Imaginary Gardens Poetry Workshop, we workshop our poems together in community. IMPORTANT: we use Google Docs (docs.google.com) to workshop our poetry. To RSVP, please email support@keithgaboury.com […]

United States

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

At the monthly Here For The Flowers Poetry Workshop, we workshop our poems together in community. IMPORTANT: we use Google Docs (docs.google.com) to workshop our poetry. To RSVP, please email […]

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