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Dreams from the Midwest: Poems by John Kropf

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Dreams from the Midwest is a reflective, wide-ranging poetry collection that finds wonder in ordinary landscapes, memory, history, weather, work, books, and the restless movement of thought itself. Moving from the Great Lakes and small-town Midwestern scenes to larger questions of conscience, time, imagination, and the unseen, John Kropf’s poems are by turns playful, philosophical, lyrical, and quietly profound. These poems honor the textures of lived experience—freighters, foundries, drive-ins, sunsets, family rituals, legal language, and late-night reflection—while asking how we make meaning from place, from the past, and from the stories we tell ourselves. Rooted in the Midwest but expansive in spirit, Dreams from the Midwest is a collection of curiosity, tenderness, humor, and the experience of life.
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John Kropf is the author of four books. Dreams from the Midwest is his second book of poetry. His writing has appeared in The Baltimore Sun, Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Washington Post, Middle West Review, The Great Lakes Review, and elsewhere. He makes his home in Granville, Ohio.
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“Walk in the country on a Midwestern night. These are the words that may rise from the silence. Fly over this and you’ll never know why it’s called the heartland. Modest but deep. Polite but true. Where the jokes are subtle and the stars are clear. Dreams from the Midwest is a concise, well crafted dance with the muses.”

–Westley Heine, author of Busking Blues, Street Corner Spirits, and Cloud Watching in the Inferno.

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“John Kropf is a wise observer, seeing significance in the smallness of things, the fleeting moment, the everyday. These poems, some so tiny and clean, prove how an economy of words can evoke a power much deeper than their size might suggest. Dreams from the Midwest is full of relevant, timely, and evocative images that will open your eyes and your heart.”

–David W. Berner, author of Garden Tools, honored by the Society of Midland Authors’ 2026 awards for poetry.

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Kropf’s Dreams from the Midwest follows on the heels of A Midwestern Heart: Poems and might look like testimony to the poetic preservation of his close connection to the Midwest.

Yet, this collection has no geographic boundaries. Witty observer that he is, he moves from self-reflection to aphoristic musings, defying “The Art of Nothing.”

–Susann Moeller, Poet Laureate of Worthington, Ohio.

 

 

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