Education
New Mexico State University. Butler University; University of Utah.
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Ken Brewer
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Since that time he has taught a wide variety of courses at Utah State University, concentrating on mentoring creative writers at the graduate level, while publishing prolifically and speaking extensively. He died after a nine-month battle with pancreatic cancer. "His poems are direct, accessible and free of the arcane references or pretentious language that can make poetry feel elitist." — KUTV, Salt Lake City
"achingly beautiful," composed of "spare and unimposing imagery and dialogue" — Starr Coulbrooke, quoted in Continuum
"Utah Poet Laureate Ken Brewer is known for his fine poetry and his wicked sense of humor" — Michael Shay
"luminously gifted.. a man who writes of passion and earth-tending in a chunk of America in which it has begun to seem that the only passion burning for the earth is about profit" — Mary Sojourner, in Mountain Gazette.
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Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Butler University and Western New Mexico University in the 1960s, then earned a master"s degree in English literature from New Mexico State University, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Utah, where he worked with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor, in 1973.
