The poems in Kevin Prufer’s fifth collection In a Beautiful Country may sound a lot like love poetry, may even employ the same sorts of strategies, particularly the closely observed and tenderly ...

Novels tend to portray dystopia as a messy, noisy business. Climate change brings devastating fires and floods; political extremism breeds abuse and bloodshed; viruses fill graveyards following quick, ...

The way Tom likes to boogie through the corners in and around the San Jose, California, area, he needs all the cornering he can get. Tom gets all he can handle from a Pete & Jake-prepared "trad" front ...

Prufer (Churches) considers the complex relationship between beauty and violence in his remarkable seventh collection of poetry, tracing the barely perceptible ways that industrial modernity “gilds us ...

Look familiar? It might if you happened to be a reader of HRM back in August of 71. We published a similar photo of Tom when he had his award-winning '29 A highboy roadster. Now Prufer is back with a ...

“My politics are rickety,” admits Prufer (How He Loved Them) in a cinematic collection that showcases a flair for blurring the line between fact and fiction—a precarious distinction in poetry. Shame ...

Kevin Prufer‘s poetic eye sweeps from the wings of history to a roadside accident to the slivers of bone in the dust of an archeological dig. Writing with deep respect for the wrecks and ravages of an ...

I'm sorry I called it a jewel. It is not the soldiers who have shot me full of holes. It is not light that pours out. Love did this. I was filled with wine. Now I am drained of it. About This Poem ...

Houston poet Kevin Prufer’s most recent collection reckons with death and how it fells the ordinary and the great alike. That collection, The Fears, earned the University of North Texas’ 2024 Rilke ...

BRECKSVILLE, Ohio -- The Brecksville Branch Library, 9089 Brecksville Road, will host Jason Prufer, author of “Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and ...