"Forever Came Today pulses with life.  In language both plain and perfect, Graham Lewis gives us the world not as we'd like it to be, but as it is.  He chooses characters that are rarely heard in poems--bar brawlers and circus freaks and town outcasts.  He chooses settings that are rarely seen--the abandoned Atomic Drive-In and the Dixie Trucker Heaven rest stop, as well as the prairie of the Midwest. Lewis masterly reveals the inner life of those on the
fringes--illuminating not their freakishness, but their
humanity, and in doing so, enriching and enlarging our own."
 - Beth Ann Fennelly

"It's about time the world saw a volume of Graham Lewis's poetry. In Forever Came Today Lewis chronicles a hard, timeless Midwest, a universe of whiskey, knives, incest, circus freaks, desperados, and the wisdom and suffering of outsiders. He does it brilliantly, without a trace of condescension. Above all, it is his characters who shine.  There is a stubborn beauty in Lewis's lines. See for yourself."
- Gerard Donovan

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Graham Lewis
author photo Bob Zordani
Graham Lewis was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and raised in New York City, Los Angeles, and Belleville, Illinois. He has earned degrees from Eastern Illinois University, Columbia College Chicago, and the University of Arkansas. He has won many prizes, including two Academy of American Poets’ Prizes, The Kenneth Patchen Award, two Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Scholarships, an Ozarks Writer’s Conference Fellowship, and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. His poetry, fiction, cartoons and film criticism have appeared in many magazines and journals, including The Quarterly, Asian Cult Cinema, New American Writing, New Letters, and The New York Quarterly.
Graham was recently featured at the Oxford Book Conference in Oxford, Mississippi on the strength of Forever Came Today.

Graham is available for readings and signings throughout the region.