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William Brewer

Why this poet couldn’t avoid writing about the opioid crisis

“I gave my body to the mountain whole. / For my body, the clinic gave out petals inked with curses. / Refill, refill, refill, until they stopped.” William Brewer reads poems from his debut poetry collection, I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions, 2017), and takes PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown on a tour of his hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia to speak about the opioid crisis.

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William Brewer
I Know Your Kind
Milkweed Editions
2017
PBS NewsHour
Jeffrey Brown
interview
Debut Poets 2017
January/February 2018

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