Jerry Brotherton (The Backyard Poet) is the 14th child in a family of 15. He grew up in the Midwest and studied life through a myriad of different jobs. Over the years, he has been a soldier, steel worker, Janitor, manager and COO. He has been writing behind closed doors since middle school but none of his work ever saw the outside world, until blogging pulled him into the light. Jerry’s work has appeared in the online magazine; Vita Brevis and he has self-published five books of prose/poetry with another forthcoming.
Jerry Brotherton currently resides in the Ozark hills of southern Missouri
So Why Read My Blog
I like to call myself a poet. But I try not to be one of those educated, fancy-word poets where you need to have a doctorate in English to understand what’s being said. I overuse commas, adjectives and adverbs. I tend to tell…not show…a story. Everything all the experts in writing tell me not to do. But when have I ever cared what experts had to say about anything.
Jerry Brotherton
