Keith’s brand new book of poetry. 2022.

“Keith Allison has accomplished something sobering and tremendous within these pages – a tour through the seasons of experience, of culture, and of the soul. If the bloom of Spring leaves you wanting, the heat of Summer is eager to warm your bones or set fire to your waiting belly. Whether it’s the changing sociopolitical landscape or the haunting ache of loneliness, Fall and Winter will catch a piece of your experience within its own pages and give you respite.”

-Melissa May, author of Sparklefat

Cover design and artwork by Jenna Fournier.

Available directly from Angry Cow Poetry, or at many online bookstores

2020

“Screaming with My Indoor Voice is a powerful mix of empathy and activism, often times going into stark descriptions and realities of not only the plight of animals, but humans as well. The collection tackles a wide range of topics and does so with grace and eloquence. There isn’t a weak or filler poem in this collection. Allison brings it with every word. He writes as if his life depends on it and it might. The rest of ours might depend on it as well.”

-Azriel Johnson, director of Writing Knights Press

Cover design and artwork by Natasha Dankovich.

Available directly from Angry Cow Poetry, or at many online bookstores

2015

“If you ever want to see someone’s wise and compassionate heart and mind in black and white, this is it. With honesty and clarity, Keith invites readers to experience a perspective that is based in love and caring rather than greed and selfishness. Reading this book will change the way you view the world around you.”

-Rae Sikora, co-founder and co-director, Plant Peace Daily

Cover design and artwork by Keith Allison.

Available directly from Angry Cow Poetry, or at many online bookstores

“Keith Allison’s Continuity Flaws is filled with poetry and essays that enlighten, challenge, and inspire its readers. With each turn of the page, I found myself either applauding, tearing up or preparing to take on the world because Keith’s point of view is strong, while not overpowering. Keith forces his readers to take a long, hard look at their value system, while at the same time being very entertaining. Continuity Flaws is a must read and as a matter of fact while you’re at it, buy two copies and gift one to a friend, because this book deserves a huge audience and the world needs this book.”

-Dionne D. Hunter

Author of I am a Dahomey Warrior!

“The title of Keith Allison's Continuity Flaws tells the reader exactly what the book is about: those omnipresent moments in which a person or society will claim to espouse one belief, while acting in the contrary, "conveniently untangled / from the messiness of reality." Allison explores new poetic forms while he grapples with the inconsistencies not only of animal rights, racism, and American politics, but also with personal struggles. In this collection pointing out flaws and begging for clarity, the reader is left with even more questions and no answers. Allison has already done the work of presenting the research, the facts, and the moral conflicts in these poems. Finding the solutions is now up to the readers.”

-Theresa Göttl Brightman

Rhysling and Pushcart nominee

“Continuity Flaws is a dynamic poetry book filled with passionate detail. Poems like “Hinges” and “Beneath the Tide” take you on emotional highs and lows. This book is more than poetry, it’s a creative design filled with history, told and untold, and now remarkably given to us from the viewpoint of the writer. Every page has value. A message. A book that can be used in today’s classrooms and can warm the hearts of those in your living room. You will cherish this purchase.”

-Adam Spells

Author of Dear God: A Collection of Poetry from My Thoughts and Heart

“Continuity Flaws is going to be a timely collection for along while to come; for the good, bad (even indifferent) of reflecting society. Keith takes an unflinching look at what capital and colony have morphed into on the street and in the minds of what we know as America at the start of the 2020s. The Continuity Flaws are in mirrors he is sharing with us all, from the pandemic, from political violence & corruption, to the personal.”

-Billy Tuggle

performance poet/teaching artist

“Keith Allison is fearless. He approaches heavy hitting subject matter with heavy-hitting prose. His cadence is unapologetically unceremonious, forcing his readers to absorb every word and confront the world around them. What I love most about Continuity Flaws is its ability to turn stanzas into calls to action.”

-Gretchen Pleuss

singer, songwriter, poet

“In Continuity Flaws, Keith Allison uses strong, unflinching poems and essays in a call for the reader to confront the deeply troubling moral contradictions of life as preached and practiced in the United States across its past and present. Allison's voice is clear and unmistakable, his choice of form and use of page space consistent. This collection deserves a place in the conversations of those who see the need for a saner, more just world."

-Lennart Lundh

writer and photographer

“Keith writes with a deep compassion and wit, making us think and laugh at the absurdity and harm in what is considered normal in our society. Ultimately, he helps us to look at our lives and strive to be better humans.”

-Zach Freidhof

Troubadour of Peace

Executive Director of the Big Love Network

"Continuity Flaws is another unapologetic offering from Keith Allison. The author doesn't hold back from his beliefs and presents said beliefs concisely and profoundly amidst the cultural clusterfuck of American societal deterioration."

-Azriel Johnson

Director of Writing Knights Press

“In Keith Allison’s Continuity Flaws, Allison explores the raw, intentional, beautiful, ‘flaws’ of life. The flaws we often ignore, or the stories we choose to believe, ‘especially when it is in our best interest to believe the story.’ Between each page readers will find ‘four seasons’ of poetry that is inimitable, unmistakably present, full-bodied, and intentional.

In one of my favorite poems, ‘Ten Things I Remember about January 28, 1986,’ Allison explores the harshness and necessity of learning life lessons:

‘I didn’t yet know hope could just explode, without a warning sign…’

I would recommend this book for anyone who is looking to connect with the physical embodiment of unforgivable vulnerability, pain, and hope transformed into a collection of poetry.”

-Native Child Brown

poet/author/mental health worker