Nurse’s poems draw on her experience

NEWTON FALLS

“Smoke: Poems,” a book of poetry by Jeanne Bryner of Newton Falls, has been published by Bottom Dog Press of Huron, Ohio.

Bryner draws on her experience as an emergency-room nurse in a Warren hospital for her poems. She has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the Tillie Olsen 2011 Creative Writing Award from the Working Class Studies Association.

Bryner has written six other books.