“Brehm is not just a conversational poet, a master of vernacular, but one who writes in conversation with the reader. His poems are in response to our shared humanity. You will find yourself in its pages, recognized and recognizing, and yet still being surprised. You will be in very good company, as if the reading was done sitting across a table, sharing a coffee, with this fine, brilliantly compassionate poet.”
—Rick Larios

“John Brehm’s pilgrimage began in Nebraska and took him to Brooklyn. There he honed a rather sharp edge which now, as he seeks illumination in Portland, Oregon, he sometimes deprecates as an obstacle to compassion for other people….”

—Lem Cooley