Bernard Keith Waldrop (December 11, 1932 – July 27, 2023) was an American poet, translator, publisher, and academic.

He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2009 collection Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy.

Bernard Keith Waldrop[1] was born in Emporia, Kansas, to Arthur Waldrop, a railroad worker, and Opal (née Mohler), a piano teacher.

The press was named after a line from the poem "Casabianca," by nineteenth-century poet Felicia Hemans.

The poem starts: Keith Waldrop died in Providence, Rhode Island on July 27, 2023, at the age of 90.