Ingrid Keir

The Choreography of Nests

by Ingrid Keir with artwork by Kelly Ording

A collection of prose-epistolary poetry by Ingrid Keir with artwork by Kelly Ording. The Choreography of Nests touches on themes of loss, survival, perseverance and self-exploration through the contradiction and complexities of modernity. A conversation weaves through a poetic landscape of voices that collide, contradict, echo, spring and recoil. Additionally, a thread of letters run throughout the collection, epistolary prose-poetry that serve as a narrative, a prayer, as a direct address at times to the reader. The word “nest” is being redefined by the poet as not only a home undergoing change, but also as a balance of darkness and light, the possibility of what can be and an attempt to uncover the unknown.

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Paperback, 72 pages, 2nd ed. 2024

Toward The Light

by Ingrid Keir with artwork by Kyle Knobel

Toward the Light traces the tender journey of leaving one life behind and stepping into another. Written in the wake of departure from New York to San Francisco, these poems chronicle the ache of farewell, the unraveling of an old love, and the quiet, luminous discovery of a new one. In language both intimate and expansive, the collection moves through shadow and longing toward the radiance of renewal—returning home to the Bay Area, to the heart, and to the light itself.

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Paperback, 64 pages, 2007

Marjorie Wood Gallery

by Ingrid Keir and Kyle Knobel

This 2009 online exhibit at the Marjorie Wood Gallery was a collaboration between poet Ingrid Keir and visual artist Kyle Knobel, inspired by the intimate setting of their shared apartment. The project explored themes of domestic life, creativity, and continuity, blending visual art and poetry.

Kyle contributed a watercolor of Ingrid’s grandfather’s typewriter—a symbol of artistic lineage and inherited creative energy—while Ingrid’s writings reflected on the everyday rhythms of home: the apartment as studio, sanctuary, and space of both tenderness and tension. Together, the work examined how love, memory, and art coexist within the private space of a shared life.

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Paperback, 24 pages, 2009