Given the Space Between Trees
Space, like time, is psychological as well as physical —Georgia O’Keeffe —Laleh
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Shirley J. Brewer graduated from careers in bartending, palm-reading and speech therapy. She serves as poet-in-residence at Carver Center for the Arts & Technology in Baltimore. Her poems garnish BarrowStreet, Poetry East, Slant, Gargoyle, Comstock Review, and many other journals. Shirley’s poetry chapbooks include A Little Breast Music, 2008, Passager Books, and After Words, 2013, Apprentice House. In 2017, Main Street Rag released her first full-length collection of poems, Bistro in Another Realm. Shirley was awarded the first Creativity Award for Excellence in Plorking (Play + Work) from the University of Baltimore, where she earned her Master’s degree in Creative Writing/Publishing Arts. Her definition of shame is a bare wrist.
Author: Shirley J. Brewer
Mixing Manhattans in Heaven
When skies drizzle over Baltimore, I taste bourbon in the air, and know my parents are drinking Manhattans—two each— in
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One Child for Another A Memoir by Nancy Murray Review/ Shirley J. Brewer In One Child for Another, a poignant
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Singer Amy Grant once observed that, in her experience, “…people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with
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