As a high-school sophomore some forty years ago, I waded into Dave Etter's first book, Go Read the River. It opened up a world mostly unknown to the New-Jersey-native likes of me: the contemporary sm
Poetry. BLUE RAIN is Dave Etter's thirty-second book of poems; his easy, unaffected voice is surely a Midwestern treasure. Who else but Dave Etter could fit all the sufferings and all the sins that fi
In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology,each of the 222 poems in this collection is narrated by a different resident of the fictional smal
