Poetry. DRIVING GRAVEL ROADS is a collection of prose poems about small towns, forgotten places, and back country destinations traveled to and from along "beetle tracks, deer trails, tote and gravel roads, as well as interstate highways and sky." As the prose poem is a form that seems to be simple prose but is actually poetry, maybe not High Poetry, but humble Midwestern United States Poetry, this form and these places hopefully inspire each other.

Author Hometown: DULUTH, MN USA



About the author: im Johnson is the 2008-2010 Duluth Poet Laureate. He is the author of six books of poems. Most recently DRIVING GRAVEL ROADS: 50 PROSE POEMS (Red Dragonfly Press, 2009). His previous work includes WOLVES (winner of the Minnesota Voices Award, New Rivers Press, 1993), Dovetailed Corners (Holy Cow! Press, 1996), and The Co-op Label (Dovetailed Press, 2005).