Brian Turner, Warrior Poet, Shares his Poetry and his Memories

Brian Turner is a poet who served with the Army infantry in 2003 during the war in Iraq. Now, each night beside his sleeping wife, he imagines himself as a drone aircraft, hovering over the terrains of Bosnia and Vietnam, Iraq and Northern Ireland, the killing fields of Cambodia and the death camps of Europe--a landscape of ongoing violence, revealing all that man has done to man.

He has written nationally recognized books of poetry: Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise, and recently published his memoir, My Life as a Foreign County.

His visit to Santa Cruz County is sponsored by the Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, the Watsonville Public Library, and Cal Humanities.