Brian Brodeur is the author of four poetry books, most recently Some Problems with Autobiography (2023), winner of the 2022 New Criterion Poetry Prize, and Every Hour Is Late (2019).&nbsp;New poems and criticism appear in Gettysburg Review, Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Southern Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Brian lives with his wife and daughter in the Whitewater River Valley. He teaches at Indiana University East.

Brian Brodeur

“Left to Folly or to Fate”: Gwendolyn Brooks’s and Elizabeth Bishop’s Ballads of Social Unrest

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

“The Flicker, Not the Flame”: E. A. Robinson’s Narrative Compression

Brian Brodeur is the author of four poetry books, most recently Some Problems with Autobiography (2023), winner of the 2022 New Criterion Poetry Prize, and Every Hour Is Late (2019).&nbsp;New poems and criticism appear in Gettysburg Review, Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Southern Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Brian lives with his wife and daughter in the Whitewater River Valley. He teaches at Indiana University East.