"Brian Burmeister makes a bold poetic debut with his book, The Things We Did, All the Things that We Do. Here’s a young poet stepping up to address a world issue, writing a book of witness, drawing on documentary materials of war and the tragedies in Sudan and the Congo. The result is straight-forward, hard-hitting, and far reaching in its search for global peace and social justice."
Mary Swander, Author of The Girls on the Roof and Poet Laureate of Iowa