Peter Conners is a poet and/or a prose poet. He is a fiction writer and an editor. He is an anthologist and an advocate for crossing boundaries in writing between poetry and prose. And soon he’ll have an autobiographical account coming out of his years spent touring with the Grateful Dead.

There is something to be said about a poetry that can reflect, and often clarify, a certain event. The power of the expression comes through when that individual event is made abstract across a range of human experience. In the morning light, rising from half-dead sleep, the noise of traffic subtly lulls one back into full consciousness. Brian Mornar achieves this point of accessibility: The mundane all is raised into a transformative moment. Mornar’s ability to make this turn seeps into his entire project as a poet, as he follows a kind of mental quest within language, or as he quotes Kleist, “We have to go on and make the journey around the world to see if it is perhaps open somewhere in the back.”