Kelly AllenBrettanomyces tells the story of simple things. It gives witness to the bevies of marginality surrounding agrarian idealism, from the emotional weight of tribalized commercial farming, to the eroded beauty of cultural collapse in the drylands of the outhwest. It teases out the line between what is essential and what is superfluous in the sysygy of industrialized food production. Informed by time spent working the vines of Virignia's burgeoning vineyards, to walking the bare escarpments of New Mexico's cattle land, this is a record of relationships and circumstance. Her poems have been published individually in the 2018 NoVa Bards Anthology and the 2016 Montpelier Poetry Month Festival. Read More Read Less