Brotherful Is a Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry

Okay, let me try to say something coherent.

I wrote Brotherful over a ten-year period, and it aged and evolved as I aged and evolved. Grief never leaves, but the view changes based on where you stand, even if you look at the same empty chair.

Brotherful is the book of which I’m most proud. It is most fully me. It is my heart. I couldn’t even think of publishing it anywhere but SRP. An early poem is called “Sibling Rivalry.”

So, to be listed next to these writers I love, and these publishers I respect, makes me feel like my chest is bursting light from the inside out.

The late Jim Harrison was perhaps the biggest influence on this book. It’s not lost on me his publisher, Copper Canyon Press, is included here.

Ghosts and angels and birds are everywhere.