The Dogwood Verses: A Poetry Chapbook, Selected Writings 2011-2021

What is this poetry book? It’s a difficult cocktail of nostalgia, regret and love. Long, difficult nights when sentimentality took over common sense. It’s a slow-burn meditation on everything vital, keeping me alive. It’s a foolish boy desperately trying to find his voice. It’s the bleeding knuckles of determination. It’s a bleeding heart singing to you with whiskey-breath. It’s manic thoughts illegible in spiral-ring notebooks. Above all else, it’s everything I could possibly give you. For the past ten years, debut author and lifelong poet Brennan Kenneth Brown has carefully and, in secret, been crafting this book: THE DOGWOOD VERSES. The following anthology of poetry has over 300 different individual works, including selected prose and essays, and is comprised of four smaller books written over the past decade: The Juvenila (2011 - 2013) // The Hyacinth Boy (2014 - 2017) // The Pine Chapter (2018 - 2020) // The Last Call (2020 - 2021).