NEWBERG, Ore. — Newberg writer and editor Tricia Gates Brown published her debut poetry collection, “Of a Certain Age,” in July through Newberg’s Fernwood Press, drawing on roughly 20 years of work to assemble the book.
“The large majority of the poems were written over the last 10-12 years, while others stretch beyond that,” Brown said.
The collection moves through the decades of a life, from the teens to the fifties, according to a press release from the author. Brown said the decade-based structure emerged as she considered how to organize narrative poems drawn from her own life…