KNEE BRACE PRESS

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Author: Alan Abrams

Contributor

  • A white man with shoulder-length white hair and a white beard.

    After flunking out of art school, Alan Abrams spent many years working in motorcycle shops, and traversing the country, solo, on two wheels. Always a tinkerer with words, his stories and poems have been published in literary journals and anthologies in the US, UK, and Ireland. His poem “Aleinu” published by Bourgeon, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has recently completed his first novel.

  • True Enough

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    “Her dying happened in slow motion, like in a/dream you know is a dream but you/can’t wake up from.”

  • On Deck

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    Alan Abrams writes about grief, love, and baseball in his latest poem for Knee Brace Press.

  • For Rief

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    In this poem about grief and death, poet Alan Abrams tells us what it’s like to watch a friend fade away, knowing you could be next.