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June 30, 2026

Within the History of Severed Heads,

Mike the Chicken kept on clucking for eighteen months. Don’t expect that from a beheaded human yet a wine-vine growth pours out a story that Anne Boleyn tried […]

June 30, 2026

Smoke Break

In between his smoke puffs,my brother Barry saidwith a fresh split lip, “You know some Neanderthalswere redheads like me.”“Does that make you a Neanderthal?” “They’re our cousins.Maybe I’m my own […]

May 5, 2026

My Place is Here

I. I do not see I do much good, but I cannot leave. Some youngster holds on to me convulsively. I do what I can: stop with him, sit near […]

May 5, 2026

I Hold the Marrow

“In Brooklyn, in an old vault, mark’d by no special recognition, lie huddled at this moment the undoubtedly authentic remains of the staunchest and earliest patriots from the British prison […]

May 5, 2026

In the Age of Blood and Heat,

I breathe. The surgeon removes loose splinters of bone from the neighborhood of a soldier’s wound. A bloodless, brown-skinn’d face with eyes billowing in blue flame grit, he bears […]

April 6, 2026

Breakfast at Hamburger Haven

A week after the Apollo 11 landing, I sip a fresh pour of coffee before my scrambled eggs and toast among a line of Saturday customers at the shared […]

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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.

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

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 […]

Live Worms Poetry Reading

Live Worms Poetry Reading

1345 Grant Ave
San Francisco, CA 94133 United States

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

On July 25th, I’ll be one of the readers at a poetry reading at Live Worms Gallery. Free to attend. Books will be available for sale.

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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