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.

From the description of Joseph Joel Keith papers, 1941-1967. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 44608197

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