Hello Featured Poems The Pelican Inn (2015) Paradise Is Orange (2017) Goodbye Jersey Mud (2019) Glacier Lake (2020) Prompts (2024)

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Hello Featured Poems The Pelican Inn (2015)Paradise Is Orange (2017)Goodbye Jersey Mud (2019) Ad Astra (2019) Glacier Lake (2020) Fritch Mill (2021) New Page Prompts (2024)

Bio

Peter Keville is a managing editor and former university teacher of English, who lives in Belmont, Massachusetts.

PK at Fenway.jpeg

To Readers

“Why this? Why now?” you may ask. This work exists to be read, but it circulates to date in small print runs with narrow markets, so why not use the web? And while COVID-19 and its variants circulated among us at their terrible human cost, we had time on our hands for projects that needed doing. So, I’ve set up this platform to show samples of my work.

Browse your way in at your leisure. Certain subjects here are sobering; may you find them reasonably so. We are bombarded again and again by perilous news, yet there is a room, if we can find it, for art that remembers. And humor. This portal aspires to be such a room.

None of this is equal to what is taking place around us. There are always front lines in a conflict, but few as challenging today as the front lines in medicine, immigration, climate change, and gun controls. In the scale of things what you read here is very rear-guard stuff — what we do when we can’t do more. Some of these writings try to evoke where we’ve been and may be again.

Most of all, enjoy the lines. They are my music to you in several registers — serious, playful, even whimsical — and my pleasure to give.

Comments are welcome.

Peter Keville

prkeville@aol.com

URL to my online bookstore, hosted by Blurb:

https://www.blurb.com/user/prkeville

To preview contents, click on a book image. It opens a preview copy.

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April 2020 (updated: December 2023)

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