No Stopping Any Time

In “No Stopping Any Time,” two-time National Endowment of the Arts winner and Iowa Writer’s Workshop graduate, Sean Brendan-Brown (“The West is a Golden Paradise”) guides us through his collection of poems into a world populated by people we pass on the street—the veteran, the father, the beggar, the “man on a downtown Biloxi bus.” Yet, rather than let us shy away, he shows us their struggle to remain hopeful in the face of love, loss, and pain. And, in doing so, we recognize ourselves.