Keith Gaboury
Keith Gaboury earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, a MA in English from San Francisco State University, and a BA in English from Baker University. His poems have appeared in such literary publications as Poetry Quarterly, New Millennium Writings, and the San Francisco Public Library’s Poem of the Day Series. The Pedestrian Press published Oakland, I’m Not Dead in 2020, Finishing Line Press published The Boy Born with a Pinhole Heart in 2022, Kelsay Books published The Cosmos is Alive in 2023, and Still Human is forthcoming from Falkenberg Press in 2024. He’s also a preschool teacher, a proud bibliophile, and the president of the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club. Keith lives in Oakland, California.
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Still Human
Still Human is a surrealistic poetry collection that explores gender, sexuality, and human identity. Along with illustrations that poetically complement certain poems, the collection views the world through a surrealistic lens. In order to discover a place in one’s town, city, and country, the poems dive into the dichotomy between urban and rural, male and female, animal and human.
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Poets Wanted Poetry Workshop
On Thursday, September 12th, I’m hosting a poetry workshop on Zoom. All poets are welcome to attend.
Read The Cosmos is Alive and experience the thrill a mind like Gaboury’s milking cosmic strangeness can summon.
Tom Daley, author of House You Cannot Reach
Still Human is a boundary-defying romp—visceral, disturbing, surreal, full of animals and erasures, personified body parts, gritty imaginary confessions, and unsettling innuendo.
Hollie Hardy, author of How to Take a Bullet And Other Survival Poems
Anyone who has ever read Keith Gaboury knows that he’ll meet you any day on the corner of Weird and Absurd with the Monk of Real Life meditating in the intersection.
Richard Loranger, author of Unit of Agency
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