About this ebook
Many of the poems were written and edited while at UW-Milwaukee, and the author brings the reader along for a walk around that commuter college. The rest of the poems were written and often read for students at Menomonee Falls High School where Brian taught creative writing for a decade. In fact, high school teachers will appreciate content mostly appropriate for students and often crafted to demonstrate how to write poetry, hopefully without ever getting too highbrow.
If you're looking for a book of poetry that also has surprising sports poems, this book is for you. You'll travel from a Nazi concentration camp to a virtual world two-hundred years in the future, always grounded in Wisconsin.
About the author
I started writing in my friend's basement back in high school. Because of our love for the Indiana Jones series, we wrote about the adventures of Arizona and Utah, two American kids who searched for such items as the Sacred Beer Stein and the Bubbler of Youth. The writing was not great, but my friends laughed. Later, I wrote some ridiculous poetry, and my friends laughed. It took me a few years and some college classes to take writing a bit more seriously. However, I still want my writing to entertain.
As an English teacher, I helped students work with their writing. However, my true passion was my own writing. I could help them with voice, imagery, metaphor, and other techniques, but I could not move past the desire to create my own.
As a father, I encourage my own kids to be creative. As a husband, I try to write romantic lines for my wife, who expected a poem a day once she realized she was committed to a writer.
I am cynical about the world, which helps me in writing humor and satire, but I also embrace the beauty of the world and my chance to add my voice to the human experience.
