John’s twelfth poetry book

Martha Playing Wiffle Ball in Her Wedding Dress and Other Poems

John’s twelfth poetry book, Martha Playing Wiffle Ball in Her Wedding Dress and Other Poems (2017) will be published next year by Encircle Publications of Farmington, Maine. Encircle published John’s last chapbook, Missing Persons.

Poet George Drew says of Surowiecki’s new collection: “This book of quirky and deeply human voices also stuns us in poem after poem with an exhilarating play of language, pathos, and wit,” while poet Stephen Campiglio, founder of the Mishi-Maya-Gat Spoken Word & Music Series, praises Surowiecki’s “crisp, evocative, musical lines” where “we see the wonder and pathos of ordinary life—and extraordinary lives.”