Tag: Greg Keeler

PERHAPS I SHOULD WADE OUT of this dream water for a while toward something a little more rational and positive—say, my grandfather. Ah yes, Granddad, my mother’s father, now there’s someone who would never shrink and scream at me from a puddle. Maybe we’d both shrink and scream at someone else from a puddle, but at least we’d be in it together...

WHEN I WAS SEVEN, my mind was sufficiently developed to decide that Father didn’t take me fishing enough. The year before, we had moved to Cortland, New York for Father’s first full time job in the English Department and Cortland State Teachers’ College. That’s right, Cortland, New York, home of Cortland fishing line, Cortland reels, Cortland you...

Greg Keeler is an accomplished musician, writer, painter, fisherman, and English teacher at Montana State University. He has published two memoirs, Waltzing With the Captain:  Remembering Richard Brautigan (Limberlost) and Trash Fish: A Life (Counterpoint). Almost Happy (Limberlost), his latest of seven collections of poetry, was published in the...