THEY SAY “YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT”… Using facts straight from today’s headlines, Brian Kenneth Swain, author of World Hunger, takes a fictional but frightening “what-if” look at the genetically modified foods currently being grown and consumed around the world. Looking through the eyes of the three major players: the corporate giants that control the purse ...
My America is a poem that examines the full range of human experience and emotion in the context of everyday places and images. From urban to rural, from the coasts to the plains, the stories are of ordinary people, their loves, their fears, and their dreams. It is “Winesburg, Ohio,” “Leaves of Grass” and “On the Road”, rolled up in one audacious and unforgettable ...
Secret Places by Brian Kenneth Swain is worth a look. This is a competent, well-balanced collection of free verse narrative poems that engage the reader in the author’s reflections on love, war, friendship, family, death and even Leonardo Da Vinci. “To An Old Friend Across the Ocean” is a fine example of the “epistolary” (letter) poem, written in this case to a ...