Tomorrow Too: The Brenda Monologues by Don Colburn

Don Colburn has written a series of sonnets that read like a miraculous story. Some might say it’s a story about sickness and death, but the voices of these people live on long after I close the book. A story about life then, in poems so particular and real I was brought to my senses. You want to feel as alive as you actually are? Read this book.

–Marie Howe, author of “What the Living Do,” and Poet Laureate of New York

From the first time I read them, these poems grabbed my heart and have not let go. They trace a deeply moving story from surprising and multiple points of view. Don Colburn has packed so much wisdom and heart into these spirited lines, honoring a woman whom I was lucky enough to know during her too-short and shining life.

–Bill Rauch, artistic director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

[A] deeply moving collection…Lines between journalism, theater, poetry and story dissolve. A spoken opera of life evolves aria by aria and is delivered with great elegance. Clear and subtle, harmonies and discords sing on the pages.

–Tim Pfau, reviewer for Oregon Poetry Association.