Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Brett Lars Underwood is a St. Louis poet and promoter. He is the author of MUSH (Spartan Press, 2018) and MUSHARONA (Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2020). His verse and riddles have been published by Poetrybay, 52nd City, Curator Magazine and included in Flood Stage: An Anthology of Saint Louis Poets, The Gasconade Review presents 39 Feet and Rising, Missouri is a Ghost-Shaped Thing and After the Flood (Spartan Press, 2019).
His work has been heard at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Sound Waves series and with the Herding Cats Collective. He is the former host of The No Show (KDHX 88.1 FM, 2000-07) He is currently hosting the podcast, High Above Grand (Spotify, Audible and other major platforms), interviewing St. Louis poets. He can be reached at brettlarsunderwood@gmail.com
Published: 2024
For many years Brett Lars Underwood has been the kind carnival barker of St. Louis poetry. Singing his city's praises while juggling literary chainsaws in his mind. Poets like Brett and his life partner in words Jim Z. McGowin are the godfathers of the St. Louis scene, and are leaving a true legacy in real time, for those smart enough to seek it out. Gateway to Mush is the third book in what is presently the Mush trilogy — I can only hope that there's more to come. The publication of this book is reason for excitement in these uncertain times and if you're holding it in your hands you should consider yourself lucky.
~ John Dorsey, Dead Photographs
