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American poet and author
Fleda Brown |
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Born | Fleda Sue Brown 1944 (age 79–80)
Columbia, Missouri, U.S. |
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Nationality | American |
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Education | English Ph.D from University of Arkansas |
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Alma mater | University of Arkansas |
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Genre | Poetry |
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Notable awards |
Porter Prize (2001) |
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Children | Two |
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Fleda Brown (born 1944 in
Columbia, Missouri) is an American
poet and
author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson.
Biography
Fleda Brown was born in
Columbia, Missouri, and raised in
Fayetteville, Arkansas. In 1978 she joined the
University of Delaware English Department. There she founded the Poets in the Schools Program, which she directed for more than twelve years. She served as
poet laureate of
Delaware from 2001 to 2007,
[1] when she retired from the University of Delaware
[2] and moved to
Traverse City, Michigan. She currently teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency
MFA program at
Pacific Lutheran University in
Tacoma, Washington.
[3] Her husband, Jerry Beasley, is also a retired English professor.
One of Brown's poems, "If I Were a Swan", has been set for choir by
Kevin Puts.
[4]
Education
- Ph.D. (English, Pre-1900 American Literature), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1983
- M.A. (English), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1976
- B.A. (English), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1969
Bibliography
Poetry
- The woods are on fire : new and selected poems, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
ISBN
9780803294943,
OCLC
957705124
- Reunion (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)
ISBN
9780299221805,
OCLC
71552368 – won 2007
Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
- The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2004)
ISBN
9780887484032,
OCLC
55071858
- Breathing In Breathing Out (Anhinga Press, 2002) – won 2001
Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
- Devil's Child (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1998)
ISBN
9780887482885,
OCLC
41226060
- The Earliest House (chapbook, Kutztown University, 1994)
- Do Not Peel the Birches (Purdue University Press, 1993)
- The Eleusinian Mysteries MS (poems and images: limited edition artbook, The Moment Press, 1992) – with Norman Sasowsky
- Fishing with Blood (Purdue University Press, 1988)
ISBN
9780911198942,
OCLC
17202526 – won the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award
Anthologies
- On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers (University of Delaware Press, 2008) – co-edited with Billie Travalini
- Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence (G. K. Hall & Company, 1988) – co-edited with Dennis Jackson
References
External links
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Fleda Brown, The Poet and the Poem 2017-18 Series |
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