Just this: New and Selected Poems

2026

Just this: New and Selected Poems

2026

Forthcoming May 12, 2026.
Available for preorder. For a signed copy, please order from Broadway Books.

“I hope copies of this book will be passed out by the ferryman at the River Styx crossing. Of course, we all would have benefited from it earlier, but better late than never. Who knows how long that crossing might take?”
—Red Pine, author of Zen Baggage

“Underpinning all of John’s work is a warm and compassionate heart, feeling the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our life’s journey, as well as the liberating humor embedded in our many human foibles.”
—Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“What do you hope to find in poetry? Wisdom, humor, delight? Acerbic wit? Reverence, irony, profound insight? Look no further. John Brehm’s Just This has them all. In splendid abundance.”
—Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita