Monetized Happiness
By Keith Gaboury
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.
To my mind, Monetized Happiness is Keith Gaboury’s best book yet, a poetic opera to Oakland and San Francisco.
Keith Gaboury earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. 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, Falkenberg Press published Still Human in 2025, and American Poetry Systems published Monetized Happiness. He’s also a preschool teacher and a bibliophile in Oakland, California.
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Each of the pieces stand tall, often proudly and infused with human drama large and small. We are greeted by a cavalcade of familiar and vivid characters. Monetized Happiness treats us with frequent pop-ups of his signature surrealist bent. Bravo, Maestro Gaboury! You have given us a snapshot of the Bay Area for the age.
Richard Loranger
Gaboury's collection Monetized Happiness captures the gritty and desperate love of Oakland. A sensitive and honest collection about the urban condition, his unflinching observation and delicate command of language shows the beauty of the day to day. A love letter not from a faraway admirer but inside the complex relationship to a city. Gaboury puts you right alongside himself in every story he has to tell about the Bay.
Lauren Parker
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