Look what's available for pre-order at Barnes & Noble: barnesandnoble.com/w/some-problem…

Shameless plug alert! The new book is now available for pre-order from Amazon (Kindle and hardcover). Also, if you're interested in receiving a review copy, please let me know! amazon.com/Some-Problems-…

In light of a dramatic and disquieting increase in AI chatbot usage, here's a poem from my fourth book, *Some Problems with Autobiography* (2023), available now for pre-order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.

Happy to have three poems and a brief interview in the current issue of *Blackbird*. (One of the dramatic monologues, "Phantasmagoria," is very strange indeed.) Huge thanks to Mary Flynn, Waverley Vesely, and the rest of the editorial team! blackbird.vcu.edu/v21n2/poetry/b…

Thank you to Adam Kirsch, Poetry Editor of *The New Criterion* for publishing three of my sonnets about parenthood. Here's a link to one (the others are available online, too): newcriterion.com/issues/2023/1/…

A hearty thank you to Alex Pepple, Stephen Kampa, and Aaron Poochigian (judge) for selecting my poem as the winner of the 2022 Able Muse Prize for Poetry and publishing it in the current issue of *Able Muse* (Issue 30). Here’s the poem (2 pages).

Our critic’s pick: “Some Problems with Autobiography,” by Brian Brodeur (Criterion Books). Brian Brodeur newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch…

Poetry is "the clear expression of mixed feelings" (Auden), "an act of mischief" (Roethke), "a mug's game" (Eliot), "a way of taking life by the throat" (Frost), "a machine made out of words" (Williams), and "imaginary gardens with real toads in them" (Moore). What else?

On Thursday, we welcomed poetry enthusiasts and readers of The New Criterion to our offices to celebrate Brian Brodeur, the recipient of the 2022 New Criterion Poetry Prize, and the release of his winning book, “Some Problems with Autobiography.” Brian Brodeur James Panero

The poet Joy Davidman, whose own work is somewhat overshadowed by the story of her life with C.S. Lewis, was #BOTD in 1915. Her politically committed collection “Letter to a Comrade” won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1938. It includes this mordant lyric “In Praise of Fascists.”

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I'm thrilled to have one the Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry. Congratulations to the finalists. You may read the winning poem here: frostfarmpoetry.org/prize?fbclid=I…

"There is no rest, really, there is no rest, there is just a joyous torment all your life of doing the wrong thing." --Derek Walcott, *Harper's*, 2010

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A huge shout-out and thank you to Waverley Vesely for his insightful (and generous) review of *Some Problems with Autobiography*: blackbird.vcu.edu/v21n3/nonficti…

I won a Pushcart Prize! For a sonnet! Thank you, John Drury, for nominating me, and thank you, Adam Kirsch, for publishing the poem, which anyone interested may read below. The poem will be reprinted in *Pushcart Prize XLIX*, the 2025 edition.

Thank you, Shane McCrae and additional editorial staff at *Image: Art, Faith, Mystery* for publishing this poem in Issue 121!

New poem in the new *Plume*! plumepoetry.com/a-drone-over-a…

Now up at NVR: a tour-de-force survey of the brief lyric in American poetry by Brian Brodeur (Brian Brodeur). Among those discussed are Robert Hayden, James Merrill, Kay Ryan, Frederick Seidel, Rhina Espaillat, George David Clark, Caki Wilkinson, and Armen Davoudian.

It was so much fun to teach a workshop on brief lyric poems in meter and rhyme at the 2025 Frost Farm Poetry Conference. I'm finally home after driving from Derry, NH to back to Indiana (with a brief stop in western MA to see a friend). Please consider attending next year!