Gaylord Brewer: "Apologia to Mars and Moon"

The VPR Poem of the Week is Gaylord Brewer’s “Apologia to Mars and Moon,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2005 issue (Volume VI, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Gaylord Brewer is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and edits the journal Poems & Plays. His seven collections of poetry include The Martini Diet (Dream Horse Press, 2008), Let Me Explain (Iris Press, 2006), Exit Pursued by a Bear (Cherry Grove Press, 2004), and Barbaric Mercies (Red Hen Press, 2003). He also has written books of literary criticism, David Mamet and Film (McFarland Press, 1993) and Charles Bukowski (Twayne/Macmillan Press, 1997), and a novella, Octavius the 1st (Red Hen Press, 2008).

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