Brouwer, Joel, This Just In, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 1998.

This is a chapbook of poems published by Brouwer
while he was completing his first full-length manuscript,
Exactly What Happened.
The chapbook may
be difficult to find without ordering it from the publisher,
but it would be interesting to read the precursor
to the intriguing full-length collection.

McDaniel, Jeffrey, The Forgiveness Parade, Manic D Press, 1998.

McDaniel is a contemporary poet to whom Joel
Brouwer is sometimes compared. Like Brouwer, Mc-
Daniel is noted for his witty, uncanny presentations
of subject matter and bizarre humor, and this collection
is a good example of that.

Prufer, Kevin, ed., The New Young American Poets: An Anthology, Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.

Prufer was born in 1969 and grew up in Cleveland,
Ohio, making him a close contemporary of Joel
Brouwer in both time and place. This collection of
young American poets...