Hello Universe Lovers

by Keith Gaboury

"There’s a new ultimate trip and Keith Gaboury is our director. He’ll fly us from a galaxy where we’ll “trip / on some cracked dark matter” to the Apollo National Park to see “…a glass case /showcasing Armstrong’s / first footprint….” Gaboury’s ambitious, lofty poems celebrate science fiction from its pulpy beginnings to its futureless present. The heroes of Hello Universe Lovers are not ship captains, explorers, or scientists—but the grunts, the citizens of the belly-side of space or the humans stranded on earth. His people are brown-baggers, miners, pulling shifts at The Photon Refinery their heads “…swirling / at the intersection of host and desire /under the only sky” they will ever know. Gaboury’s arresting images and deft lines elucidate the collision of a space opera and a blues sung by Martian farmers. Gaboury dazzles!" -- Peter Jay Shippy, author of How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic

44 pages, Paperback

Published May 15, 2020

About the author

Keith Gaboury earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College, a MA in English from San Francisco State University, and a BA in English from Baker University. 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, and Falkenberg Press published Still Human in 2025. Monetized Happiness is forthcoming from American Poetry Systems. He’s also a preschool teacher and a proud bibliophile. Keith lives in Oakland, California.