Life Through Broken Pens

"In a thousand different cities;
First-timers,
New-timers,
Long-timers,
Standing up
And sharing poetry
With the zeal and lust
Of hellfire preachers
And angry rioters.

I want poetry to be alive and dangerous again."

- Hopes of a Young American Poet

Life Through Broken Pens is the debut chapbook of Hoosier poet Walter Beck; in his hands, the pen or the mic is a weapon as sharp as a straight razor. As the author stated, "I want my work to have all the explosive feeling of a shot of straight Everclear".