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Windhover Journal reviews Brent Newsom’s “Love’s Labors”

Windhover Journal reviews Brent Newsom’s “Love’s Labors”

"Given this strong debut, readers can hope that Brent Newsom’s future poems will continue to develop more of these individuals (and himself), focusing on the confusing and confounding wonder of... Read More
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Nin Andrews Interviews Brent Newsom

Nin Andrews Interviews Brent Newsom

Photo credit: M. Trey Reynolds NIN ANDREWSI admire this book (Love’s Labors) so much, I don’t know where to start. I can’t quite believe it’s your first collection of poetry. Really? So... Read More
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What Do I Know? by Brent Newsom

What Do I Know? by Brent Newsom

“Mine the Mind” by Corey Lee Fuller. Used with permission. All rights reserved. For my final blog post, I’ve been asked to answer the question, “What do you know now,... Read More
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Book Press Release: Love’s Labors

Book Press Release: Love’s Labors

LOVE’S LABORS Poems by Brent Newsom   Like interconnecting stories that form a novel, the poems in Brent Newsom’s debut collection, LOVE’S LABORS, coalesce into a narrative of an indelible place and its... Read More
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Hitting the Road by Brent Newsom

Hitting the Road by Brent Newsom

Special delivery from the book ninja When my author copies of Love’s Labors were delivered to our house, I was still at work. So my wife packed up the box of books... Read More
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Cooking Fried Rice by Brent Newsom

Cooking Fried Rice by Brent Newsom

My wife’s white-socked feetpolish the gray vinyl tile of our kitchen.She spins from fridge to stovewhile I stand at the cutting board,cilantro on the altar, a sacrificeto the tiny tongue-throned... Read More
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Surprise, Surprise by Brent Newsom

Surprise, Surprise by Brent Newsom

by Flickr user Benson Kua I am home with my two kids when the call comes. It’s early August, midafternoon. Snack time. Water and ants on a log. No—be honest, Brent—probably... Read More
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No Solitary Genius by Brent Newsom

No Solitary Genius by Brent Newsom

In Track a Book, we follow one manuscript’s journey from creation to publication.  This monthly series will look at Brent Newsom’s upcoming CavanKerry release Love’s Labors, which is scheduled for release in... Read More
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What a Book’s Worth

What a Book’s Worth

In Track a Book, we follow one manuscript’s journey from creation to publication.  This monthly series will look at Brent Newsom’s upcoming CavanKerry release Love’s Labors, which is scheduled for release in... Read More
Posted on By Hannah Neace