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John Holbrook is a storyteller. He writes personal stories, historical stories, scientific stories, imagined stories, each narrative poem lavishly illustrated by the detailed language characteristic to its landscape. From Michigan to Montana to the Grand Canyon, Holbrook gives us poems of love and loss, of pain and joy that his mentor, Richard Hugo, might say were ""triggered"" by memories and images Holbrook experienced along the way in his eight decades of riding the river of life. Water to Sustain the Spirit both comforts and entertains. -Mark Gibbons, Montana Poet Laureate (2021-2023) In these poems John Holbrook conveys a world vast and particular and a love for all its creatures. He knows magic and science can at times belong together and he gives us those moments in these lines that whip like a barbed fly across the dazzle of rushing water. -David E. Thomas, author of Old Power company Road

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John Holbrook lives with wife Judith in Missoula, Montana, where he earned his masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. In 1990 his poem ""Petition to Common Sense,"" won first place in the Florida Poetry Contest, juried by the poet and Novelist, James Dickey. In 1991, his first book, ""Clear Water on the Swan,"" shared first place with short story Writer, Ron Fischer, in Montana Arts Council's First Book Award. In 2002 Pudding House Publications published his chapbook, ""Loose Wool, river Tackle, Pencil Drafts,"" a manuscript which grew out of a grant from the Ludvig Vogelstein Foundation to write a sequence of poems on various rivers in his region. In 2010 Foothills Publishing of Kanona, New York, published his collection ""A Clear Blue Sky in Royal Oak."" Over the years his work has appeared nation wide in many magazines and periodicals including Antaeus; Barataria review; Big Sky Journal; Cafeteria; Camas, The Carolina Quarterly, Colorado State review; Comstock Review; Cutbank; The Florida Review; Fresh Water Poems (an anthology); Of Frogs and Toads (an anthology); Green Hills Literary Review; Hubbub; Kinesis, Main Street Rag; Mississippi Review; The Nebraska Review; The New Verse News; Pinyon; Poetry Northwest; Rain City Review; The South Carolina Review; Southern Poetry Review; The Talking River Review and the Wisconsin Review, to name a few.

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