person’s with the world outside himself. To read McKee is to witness drama and struggle; if the art is hard-won, the human victories are, too.” 2007 Warren Woessner, in the American Book Review (Jan/Feb 2007, Vol 28, No. 2), wrote that McKee's poems have a “surprising honesty…. In this era of superconfessional hubris, we are told that no topic is off-limits, but, if this is so, why are so many of these poems startling? Picasso said, “art is not truth,” and I know that to be true, but it is important to the force of these poems that I can believe that the poet is giving us his stories straight up.” McKee was a longtime editor of the Painted Bride Quarterly. During his tenure, he edited three special issues, celebrating the work of Etheridge Knight and John Logan, as well as a retrospective, 20th-anniversary volume of the PBQ. He operated Banshee Press and edited the magazine One Trick Pony until its demise in 2007. Bibliography Schuylkill County (Wampeter Press, Green Harbor, MA 1982) The True Speed of Things (Slash and Burn Press, Philadelphia, PA 1984) (Reprinted: Nightshade Press, Troy, ME 1986) Safe Water (Slash and Burn Press, Philadelphia, PA 1986) No Matter (Pig In a Poke Press, Pittsburgh, PA 1987) Oranges (M.A.F. Press, Portlandville, NY 1989) Angelus –a broadside issue (Lilliput Review, Pittsburgh, PA 1990) Three Poems –a chapbook (Verse Press, Narberth, PA 1993) Last Seen –a pamphlet (Red Pagoda Press, Reading, PA 1999) River Architecture: Poems From Here & There: A Selected Poems 1973-1993 (Cynic Press, Philadelphia, PA 1999) Right as Rain (Nova House Press, Rosemont, PA 2000) Loose Change (Marsh River Editions, Marshfield, WI 2001) Greatest Hits 1971-2001 (Pudding House Press, Johnstown, OH 2002) Near Occasions of Sin (Cynic Press, Philadelphia, PA 2006) Marginalia (Translations from the Old Irish) (Adastra Press, Easthampton, MA 2008) Still Life (Foothills, Kanona, NY, 2008) Jamming (The League of Laboring Poets, San Clemente, CA, 2008) No Matter (Number Five. The Rebound Series. Seven Kitchens Press: http://sevenkitchenspress.com 2011) As editor Etheridge Knight: A Celebration (A special issue of the Painted Bride Quarterly—PBQ, Philadelphia, PA 1988) John Logan (A special issue of the Painted Bride Quarterly—PBQ, Philadelphia, PA 1990) PBQ: A Poetry Retrospective 1973-1993 (A special issue of the Painted Bride Quarterly—PBQ, Philadelphia, PA 1993) References American male poets 1951 births 2011 deaths 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers