Indy-based poet, author, and writer Dan Grossman will be launching his latest book, A Thing for Border Towns: Poetry and Prose, at Tomorrow Bookstore. Copies will be available for purchase and author signing.
A Thing for Border Towns: Poetry and Prose is a book that begins with a youthful recollection of driving south through Utah’s canyon country in the summer of 1988 while on break from his volunteer position with the Bureau of Land Management. Thirty-five years later, he finds himself in Douglas, Arizona, at the terminus of the same highway. On that day he crossed into Agua Prieta, Sonora. This is one of 12 border towns that Dan visited during his month-long trip along the US-Mexico border in October 2023. In addition to working with humanitarian organizations and talking with the people who worked for them, he talked to migrants, politicians, law enforcement officials, winery owners, artists, YouTube creators, and right-wing media personalities. The author hopes, by coming full-circle in his own personal journey, to shed some light on the border region with both this collection and a forthcoming work of journalism.
Dan Grossman edits the online blog IndyCorrespondent.org where you can find links to his poetry collections, Mindfucking Roundabouts of Carmel, Indiana and Soft Corps. His forthcoming collection A Thing for Border Towns will be available in late spring. Dan is a former Peace Corps volunteer (Niger 1992-94). He has taught English composition for Marian University and served as managing editor and arts editor for NUVO. Poems and short stories from his collections have been published in many magazines, and in the anthology Indianapolis Review. His poem “Untitled” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Trash Sandwich in 2023. He has published journalism in The Tucson Sentinel, Mirror Indy, NUVO, and Pattern. He lives in Carmel, Indiana with his family.
