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Gaylord Brewer

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Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and edits the journal Poems & Plays. The most recent of his six books of poetry are Barbaric Mercies(Red Hen, 2003), Exit Pursued by a Bear(Cherry Grove, 2004) and Let Me Explain(Iris Press, 2006). He has published 600+ poems in journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2006. Brewer’s literary criticism includes David Mamet and Film(McFarland, 1993) and Charles Bukowski(Twayne/ Macmillan, 1997). His plays have been staged in Alaska, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee, and his novella Octavius the 1stwill be published by Red Hen in 2007.

For more on Brewer, see

• Sample poems at Cherry Grove Collections
• Sample from Barbaric Mercies at Red Hen Press
• "Apologia to Mars and Moon" at Valparaiso Poetry Review.
• "The World Etiquette of Cool" at Smartish Pace

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