Embracing Change is a collection of poems written while he was sampling life, and the inspiration for his poems are subjects he cares about, like how dreams are valued by the individual and the making of America. His poems range from the insight of a dream to the cumbersome feat of telling a lie. All his poems are opinions derived from his life experiences and his feelings of the poetic majesties of nature, society, and the human condition, while taking the images of nature and subjects like that of the ecosystem along with ethical right and moral judgment to produce poems that he finds are compelling and prudent to todays society.

Paul Keenan was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At a young age, he moved with his family to the small town of Kerkhoven, Minnesota, where he grew up. While attending high school he excelled in football and was captain of the wrestling squad. After which, he attended college, where he was bitten by the poetry bug while participating in a course on poetry writing. Since those days, he has been writing poetry. Embracing Change is his first book of poetry.