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Fellowship, Poems

$15.00

The 59 poems in Fellowship (2026) continue a creative and personal journey begun in News of Need (2025) about the bittersweet wonder of life seen through experiences with sobriety and questions of spirituality and faith. Brown’s poems bring readers and listeners into close contact with unforgettable characters trying to live fuller lives in service to each other and their conception of a higher calling. Many of the poems in Fellowship subtly yet emotionally open moral and philosophical questions while others offer rousing encouragement. These poems seem to say the past is nothing to regret and the future nothing to fear. This is Brown’s third collection of poetry and certain to resonate with anyone seeking communion with the feelings expressed in this excerpt from “Pith”:

His pulsing grip says there has been life
lost to faithless greed and hatred.
If he could speak, it seems he would shout,
Wake up! He would shout, Look,

my broken body is brother to your body.
Are you paying attention? Are you aware
of what is happening at this very moment?
Then tell me, Mister Know-It-All,
what is happening at this very moment?

For more excerpts, read this blog post announcing the release of Fellowship.

The 59 poems in Fellowship (2026) continue a creative and personal journey begun in News of Need (2025) about the bittersweet wonder of life seen through experiences with sobriety and questions of spirituality and faith. Brown’s poems bring readers and listeners into close contact with unforgettable characters trying to live fuller lives in service to each other and their conception of a higher calling. Many of the poems in Fellowship subtly yet emotionally open moral and philosophical questions while others offer rousing encouragement. These poems seem to say the past is nothing to regret and the future nothing to fear. This is Brown’s third collection of poetry and certain to resonate with anyone seeking communion with the feelings expressed in this excerpt from “Pith”:

His pulsing grip says there has been life
lost to faithless greed and hatred.
If he could speak, it seems he would shout,
Wake up! He would shout, Look,

my broken body is brother to your body.
Are you paying attention? Are you aware
of what is happening at this very moment?
Then tell me, Mister Know-It-All,
what is happening at this very moment?

For more excerpts, read this blog post announcing the release of Fellowship.

News of Need, Poems

$15.00

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