Trample & Sew, Poems
Trample & Sew (64 pages) contains more than 40 poems about youthful seeking, hapless adventure, and love found and lost from the American Midwest to Eastern Europe. These poems range in tone from romantic longing to hardboiled clarity, often written with a sense of humor and always in everyday language meant to connect with all readers. This is Brown’s first collection of poetry and for the most part includes works completed between 2014 and 2018.
Excerpt:
Great Oaks
I slow race miniature streets
of the nearby cemetery
before entering the country club
also named Great Oaks
where I will try not to sweat
into the salads.
Steve Brown was born in Flint, Michigan, and studied art in Detroit and Germany where his essay collection Glänze, Gespenst! was published in 2015. His writing has appeared in Witness, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Dummy Magazine, Public Art Dialogue, and elsewhere. He has worked as a busboy, cook, roofer, carpenter, landscaper, driver, salesman, librarian, substitute teacher, grant writer, commercial artist, and non-profit director. He is also a visual artist and performer. He lives in Michigan and Ohio.
Trample & Sew (64 pages) contains more than 40 poems about youthful seeking, hapless adventure, and love found and lost from the American Midwest to Eastern Europe. These poems range in tone from romantic longing to hardboiled clarity, often written with a sense of humor and always in everyday language meant to connect with all readers. This is Brown’s first collection of poetry and for the most part includes works completed between 2014 and 2018.
Excerpt:
Great Oaks
I slow race miniature streets
of the nearby cemetery
before entering the country club
also named Great Oaks
where I will try not to sweat
into the salads.
Steve Brown was born in Flint, Michigan, and studied art in Detroit and Germany where his essay collection Glänze, Gespenst! was published in 2015. His writing has appeared in Witness, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Dummy Magazine, Public Art Dialogue, and elsewhere. He has worked as a busboy, cook, roofer, carpenter, landscaper, driver, salesman, librarian, substitute teacher, grant writer, commercial artist, and non-profit director. He is also a visual artist and performer. He lives in Michigan and Ohio.
Trample & Sew (64 pages) contains more than 40 poems about youthful seeking, hapless adventure, and love found and lost from the American Midwest to Eastern Europe. These poems range in tone from romantic longing to hardboiled clarity, often written with a sense of humor and always in everyday language meant to connect with all readers. This is Brown’s first collection of poetry and for the most part includes works completed between 2014 and 2018.
Excerpt:
Great Oaks
I slow race miniature streets
of the nearby cemetery
before entering the country club
also named Great Oaks
where I will try not to sweat
into the salads.
Steve Brown was born in Flint, Michigan, and studied art in Detroit and Germany where his essay collection Glänze, Gespenst! was published in 2015. His writing has appeared in Witness, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Dummy Magazine, Public Art Dialogue, and elsewhere. He has worked as a busboy, cook, roofer, carpenter, landscaper, driver, salesman, librarian, substitute teacher, grant writer, commercial artist, and non-profit director. He is also a visual artist and performer. He lives in Michigan and Ohio.
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