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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 […]

April 6, 2026

Complicit

I slurp coffee with cream on a Lake Merritt bench across from waters flowing like imported coffee into commuting mouths. Shit. Underpaid or unpaid hands surely plucked these Columbian […]

April 6, 2026

An Oakland Aubade

Our eyes snap open into the shards of a shattered night after sleep nested on our branch bodies. Outside our open bedroom glass, Black-Crowned Night-Herons sleep in their familial nest. […]

February 26, 2026

Tom Lookalike

After I watched Top Gun up in my room, I dyed my blonde hair black, threw on some aviators, and grabbed my dad’s car keys. Oh, and I had to […]

February 16, 2026

A Lake Merritt Nocturne

Beside lapping water, I wander on Lakeshore Avenue. When a leashed Golden Retriever yelps, I’m startled out of my stupor in a black pool between lampposts aglow. […]

February 16, 2026

Concrete and History

You tumble out of Montgomery BART. Up up. Skyscrapers bully your downtown eyes where lofting steel slides into the keyhole of San Francisco fog. Wait you think: who’s this […]

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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

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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Keith Gaboury

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