For centuries, reports have circulated of mysterious lights floating above the valley that stretches beneath Brown Mountain in western North Carolina. Sightings and theories persisted over the decades even as skeptics searched for scientific reasons to explain away the phenomenon. These lights provide the backdrop for the poems in Brown Mountain Lights, demonstrating that even when life is at its most challenging, we can continue to find mystery and beauty all around us. #poetry #UFO #lights #mystery
Mark Steudel works in fundraising for an environmental nonprofit. He currently lives in the Sandhills region of central North Carolina with his longtime girlfriend and two charismatic huskies. He has had poetry published in the Atlanta Review, Poetry East, Slipstream, San Pedro River Review, the Banyan Review, and others. You can find him on Instagram: @mark.steudel.poet.
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Like the mountain and the mysterious lights that lend its name to this collection, Mark Steudel’s poems are extraordinary things that emanate from ordinary places. Steudel transports us from North Carolina mountains to coastal swampland, and from the perilous seaside cliffs of Peru to the even more hazardous emotional landscapes of broken love. Brown Mountain Lightsreads like a guide book for those who seek knowledge, truth or any kind of understanding, revealing to readers that “If you look at everything just right, you can / Begin to see.”
–Denton Loving, author of Feller
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