Give Over, Graymalkin

Gaylord Brewer's most recent books are his 8th poetry collection, Give Over, Graymalkin (Red Hen Press, 2011), and the comic novella Octavius the 1st (Red Hen Press, 2008). Earlier books of poetry include Presently a Beast (Coreopsis Books, 1996), Devilfish (Red Hen Press, 1999; winner of the inaugural Benjamin Saltman Poetry Prize), Four Nails (Snail's Pace Press, 2001; winner of the 2001 Snail's Pace Poetry Prize), Barbaric Mercies (Red Hen Press, 2003), Exit Pursued by a Bear (Cherry Grove Collections, 2004), Let Me Explain (Iris Press, 2006), and The Martini Diet (Dream Horse Press, 2008; winner of the 2006 Orphic Prize). His critical works include David Mamet and Film (McFarland, 1993) and Charles Bukowski (Macmillan, 1997). He has published 800 poems in journals and anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and his plays have been staged in Chicago, Columbus, Nashville, New York, and Valdez, Alaska. Among his recent residencies were the Global Arts Village (India) and Can Serrat and the Fundación Valparaíso (both in Spain). Brewer, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and edits the journal Poems & Plays, and has also taught in Russia, Kenya, and the Czech Republic. In 2009, he was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission.

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