Vern Brooks is a poet and visual storyteller whose work blends words and imagery into a single emotional canvas. His collection BrokenScripts: Many Forms of Poetry explores memory, loss, and renewal through painterly illustrations and deeply personal verse. Drawing inspiration from family, history, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit, Vern’s poetry transforms lived experience into art — most poignantly in One War Two Battles, written for his father, a Vietnam veteran who faced schizophrenia after returning home.