Book Launch: Broken Alive, Poetry by Brett Warren

The Cape Cod Museum of Art will host the launch of Broken Alive (Shanti Arts Publishing), Brett Warren’s second collection of poems. The event will include a short conversational reading moderated by Lauren Wolk, followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Part of the museum’s ARTfull Thursdays program, this event will be free and open to the public. All are welcome.

Broken Alive begins and ends in a cemetery—a place that is, paradoxically, full of life. The intervening poems venture into liminal worlds, encountering instability, loss, and ecological distress while finding epiphany and renewal in wild places, solitude, and human connection. Steeped in empathy and the practice of looking deeply, Broken Alive seeks to transcend “either/or” thinking, embracing a more expansive, “both/and” perspective, one spacious enough to hold even opposites—grief and joy, presence and absence, life and death—side by side, interconnected. Here, brokenness is illuminated, revealing itself to be not only universal, but essential to being fully human and fully alive.

Brett Warren (she/her) is a long-time editor and the author of The Map of Unseen Things (Pine Row Press, 2023) and Broken Alive (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2026). Her poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Canary, Cape Cod Review, Halfway Down the Stairs, Whale Road Review, and other literary publications. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, Brett was awarded writing residencies at John Hay Writing Studio in 2024–2026. www.brettwarrenpoetry.com