Keith, Joseph Joel

Joseph Joel Keith was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1920s. He was a member of the Poetry Society of America, president of the Los Angeles, California Branch of the P.E.N., and was managing editor of the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards. His works include: "Across the Dark" (1964), "Aloha, Polynesia: Hawaiian Poems" (1967), "Durable Fire" (1949), "The Hearth Lit: Poems" (1946), "Inner Pilgrim" (1939), "The Long Nights: Poems" (1944), and "The Proud People: Poems of War and Poems of Peace" (1943), among others. Keith passed away on January 1, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Biography

Joseph Joel Keith was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1920s. He was a member of the Poetry Society of America, president of the Los Angeles, California Branch of the P.E.N., and was managing editor of the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards.

His works include: Across the Dark (1964), Aloha, Polynesia: Hawaiian Poems (1967), Durable Fire (1949), The Hearth Lit: Poems (1946), Inner Pilgrim (1939), The Long Nights: Poems (1944), and The Proud People: Poems of War and Poems of Peace (1943), among others.

Keith passed away on January 1, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Source:

Triem, Eve. "In Memoriam: Joseph Joel Keith." The Indian P.E.N. 32 (1967): 167-169.