If, instead of Spoon River, the setting of the great Edgar Lee Masters sequence was a little graveyard just south of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, or Luckenbach, Texas, the poor souls interred there would be singing these haunted poems to each other in a southwestern twang under a full prairie moon.

George Bilgere, winner of the May Swenson Poetry Awardand Pushcart Prize

When the Psalmist sang, "Teach us to number our days," he must have heard the same melody of humanness that runs underneath Nathan Brown's poetry.

Milton Brasher-Cunningham, editor at Church Publishing Inc., New York, author of The Color Of Together: Metaphors of Connectedness

With the wit and compassion of a modern day Chaucer, Nathan Brown presents us with a group of contemporary American pilgrims on a journey to the Canterbury that is nowhere and everywhere because it is the holy center of their own unique lives. These engaging and moving poems take us out of ourselves and into the perspectives of our friends, our neighbors, and the strangers we pass along the way. There are few more important tasks for poetry today.

Ben Myers, 2015-2016 Oklahoma Poet Laureate

and author of Black Sunday