Keith Althaus
About the author
Keith Althaus has published four books of poetry: Rival Heavens (Provincetown Arts Press, 1993), Ladder of Hours (Ausable Press, 2005), Cold Storage (Off the Grid Press, 2016) and coming in January 2024 New and Selected Poems. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, and numerous other magazines and journals. He has received a Pushcart Prize as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Foundation of the Arts. In 1969 he was one of the first Writing Fellows at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met his wife Susan Baker.
Books of Poetry
Ladder of Hours (2005)
“This new volume is the most substantial airing of [Althaus’s] wonderfully acute and lyrical poems, all burnished and spare as the landscape at the end of Cape Cod where he has resided for decades. Though his poems range over subjects far and wide, they all share simple profundity and achieved elegance.” —Notre Dame Review
Cold Storage (2016)
“Cold Storage is filled with those enigmas so frequently found at the heart of the real. It possesses a shrewd, sad wonder at how and where we live, and a honed awareness that nothing is quite what it seems, people least of all. It is a book like no other at this crazed, ridiculous moment on our beautiful, sorrowing planet.” —DAVID RIVARD
