Publications
"McKeown is a masterful storyteller... [their] poetry [offers]
a new kind of folklore — new creation myths of selfhood."
Fred O. Beeby, Discorder Magazine
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Harry's debut chapbook I Need Not Be Good was published in February 2022 by Rahila's Ghost Press and shortlisted for the 2023 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Their poems have appeared in SAD Mag, Poetry Magazine, Room, Peach Mag, Poetry is Dead, The Ex-Puritan, and Bad Nudes. They were awarded the George McWhirter Prize for Poetry in Winter 2020.
Books
I Need Not Be Good
Rahila's Ghost Press
Edited by Shawn Robinson
Published February 2022
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"Reading I Need Not Be Good is like listening to a wild west troubadour singing tales of constant yearning and joyous embodiment. Mckeown touched every part of my transmasc heart’s desire to sit under a prairie sky amongst fellow cowboys, telling stories of our adventures illuminated only by the glow of fireflies. These poems are viscerally raw, intimate, and sticky — they touch every inch of you in a way you can’t wash away."
—Fred O. Beeby, Discorder Magazine
Poetry
2024
I want to know what the stars feel like. I want to touch them with my stupid fingers, Sad Mag
2022
My Girlfriend and I Are Gay on Main Street, Plenitude Magazine
2021
Outbreaks, Poetry Magazine
Transpoetics, Peach Mag *shortlisted for the Peach GOLD in Poetry Prize
Cancer Poem, Room Magazine
2020
Loving, Poetry is Dead
Jodie Foster, The Ex-Puritan