Gaylord Brewer
Gaylord Brewer is a professor at MTSU, where he founded and edits the journal Poems & Plays. He also teaches at Murray State U's new low-residency MFA Program. The most recent of his seven books of poetry are Barbaric Mercies (2003), Exit Pursued by a Bear (2004), and Let Me Explain (2006). His poems have appeared in many journals, including Best American Poetry 2006. Brewer's literary criticism includes David Mamet and Film (1993) and Charles Bukowski (1997). His plays have been staged in Alaska, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee, and his novella Octavius the 1st was published in 2007. His eighth book of poetry, Give Over, Graymalkin, is forthcoming in 2011 from Red Hen Press.
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
- His poem "Upon My Offering Her an Easter Chocolate, My Wife Screams that She Won't Let Me Make Her Fat" at The Writers' Almanac
- Poems & Plays, MTSU
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