Keith Gaboury

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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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.
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“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

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May 6

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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May 20

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 […]

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June 3

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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June 17

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 […]

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July 1

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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