Will Brewbaker
@WSBrewbaker
phd candidate @Duke_English | poems @yalereview @NarrativeMag @GburgReview | reviews @LAReviewofBooks @commonwealmag
My poem, “The Cloisters,” is out today in @yalereview as part of a stunning folio on poetry & the divine. Thank you to everyone at TYR - especially @talinout for her thoughtful curation. (NB: to preserve line breaks, read in landscape or on web.) yalereview.org/article/will-b…
“Three Sonnets for the Slaughtered Innocents” Out in the new special issue of Christianity & Literature.
ENTER THE HORSE, DARKROOM DOOR, PART II grateful for @missouri_review and @kylanrice, thank you for supporting my work introducing the horse—the first section's in the new issue of @batcityreview missourireview.com/enter-the-hors…
Just received the first issue of @_markjournal , where I’m pleased to have two very short lyrics. It’s a joy to have poems in such a handsome journal - & alongside this terrific cast of poets.


Introducing Mark, a devotional poetry journal edited by Sam Bailey and Emma De Lisle. Mark 1 features poems by Lisa Russ Spaar, Toby Martinez de las Rivas, James Davis May, Will Brewbaker, and Talin Tahajian, and an interview with Christian Wiman.
MARK 1 AVAILABLE NOW POEMS BY LISA RUSS SPAAR, TOBY MARTINEZ DE LAS RIVAS, JAMES DAVIS MAY, WILL BREWBAKER, AND TALIN TAHAJIAN AND A NEW INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTIAN WIMAN EDITED BY SAM BAILEY AND EMMA DE LISLE PUBLISHED BY STAIRCASE BOOKS YOURS IN X staircasebooks.org/Mark-1
four new poems (2021–2023) in the current issue of @missouri_review, thank you so much to @kylanrice and the eds for believing in, advocating for, and supporting my poems missourireview.com/magazine-issue… muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/article…
"Despite the uneven quality of the long 'Letters' sequence, 'Acts' does contain moments of striking language and real insight." Will Brewbaker on a new collection by poet and priest Spencer Reece: commonwealmagazine.org/i-belonged-lord
For @commonwealmag, I wrote about Spencer Reece’s new collection, ACTS (@fsgbooks). Many thanks to @GriffinOleynick for his editorial eye on this. commonwealmagazine.org/i-belonged-lord
“The tide abandons what it leaves, I think, being as usual wrong.” — @talinout thedriftmag.com/cape-neddick/
Grateful for the space to write about Saskia Hamilton’s luminous - & final - words for @commonwealmag
.@WSBrewbaker on Saskia Hamilton's All Souls for @commonwealmag commonwealmagazine.org/hope-or-consol…
.@WSBrewbaker on Saskia Hamilton's All Souls for @commonwealmag commonwealmagazine.org/hope-or-consol…
Blown away to have a poem in the new issue of @pshares! It’s always been a dream journal of mine, and I’m just thrilled to be in the company of so many folks I admire. Enormous thanks to everyone on staff, and to @LailaLalami for selecting this one! ✨
a poem by Robert Lowell for today’s Feast of the Holy Innocents— “Still / The world out-Herods Herod”

"We wandered those quiet rooms and monastic towers, you and I, for hours, speaking only to note, with a nod or word, the oddest things" —@WSBrewbaker, “The Cloisters” yalereview.org/article/will-b…
Today's Featured Poem: "Distractions" by @talinout, from the Fall 2023 Issue of @WestBranchMag. Read here: poems.com/poem/distracti…
“I felt / something true had been spoken” — Louise Glück (from WINTER RECIPES FROM THE COLLECTIVE)