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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 […]

February 8, 2026

My Mannequin Union

In the last solar year, I cyclically visited the last Macy’s in Denver. Right at the entrance, a mannequin’s whiplash stare lashed me up and down as I strolled around […]

January 30, 2026

Look Out! for Stampeding Rain

After a string of in-heat dog days, the sky unlatches their cloud gate, lets loose a raining kennel of cats and dogs clawing my face raw. I sprint through this […]

January 30, 2026

A Feathered Divide

Through my living room window, I spot a peacock resident prowling Occidental and 61st Street yet they don’t pay a mortgage or buy a $7 mocha latte. I must […]

January 30, 2026

I Hear Oakland Speaking

We walk in May Day sunlight where Menace barks at a bulldog chained behind a fence at the bent junction of Market and 35th. I pet my twelve-year-old poodle mix. […]

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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 […]

Poetry Reading

653 Chenery St
San Francisco, CA 94131 United States

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

At Bird & Beckett, Keith Gaboury will read from Monetized Happiness alongside fellow poets published by American Poetry Systems.

Poetry Reading

326 23rd Street
Oakland, CA 94612 United States

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

At Nomadic Bookshop, Keith Gaboury will read from Monetized Happiness alongside fellow Bay Area poets.

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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