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Ken Brewer, a celebrated poet of the American West and longtime scholar who resides in Utah, where he serves as Poet Laureate, was born Kenneth Wayne Brewer in Indianapolis in December, 1941. He moved West to attend Western New Mexico University in the 1960s, then earned a master's degree in English literature from New Mexico State University, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Utah, where he worked with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor, in 1973. Since that time he has taught a wide variety of courses at Utah State University, concentrating on mentoring creative writers at the graduate level, while publishing prolifically and speaking extensively.
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In over three decades at Utah State Brewer is credited with publishing eight volumes of his poetry as well as more than individual 300 poems, essays and reviews in literary journals. Collections of his poetry may be found in
- The Place In Between, Limberlost Press, 1998
- Lake's Edge, Woodhedge Press, 1997
- Hoping for all, Dreading Nothing, Slanting Rain Press, 1994
- A Fine Art Book of Poems with Woodcuts by Harry Taylor
- To Remember What is Lost, USU Press, 1982 (ISBN# 0-87421-114-X), 68pp. Re-issued in paperback, 1989 (ISBN# 0-87421-143-3)
- The Collected Poems of Mongrel, Compost Press, 1981
- Round Again: A Cycle of Poems, published under a grant from the Utah Institute of Fine Arts, 1980
- Sum of Accidents, Chapbook Series, Alliance for the Varied Arts, 1977
- Places, Shadows, Dancing People, USU Monograph Series, Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1969, pp. 31-47, with Tom Lyons, Joyce Wood and Robert Wood.
Journals in which Brewer's poems have been published include Poetry Northwest, Kansas Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Kentucky Poetry Review, The Pikeville Review, Writer's Forum, Weber Studies, Blue Unicorn, River Styx, High Country News, Green's Magazine, Contemporary Quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, Hollow Spring Review, Westigan Review, Puerto del Sol, Hanging Loose, South Dakota Review, Western Humanities Review, Timberline, City Art Journal, Dry Crik Review, Plainsongs, Ellipsis and others. Brewer's essays have appeared in Ellipsis and Weber Studies. His literary criticism and reviews have been published in Literary Magazine Review, Rocky Mountain Review and Western American Literature Journal.He has served on numerous advisory boards.
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