Fleda Brown. Courtesy Poetry and Poets in Rags.
Fleda Brown (born 1944) is an American poet, academic, and prose author. She is also known as Fleda Brown Jackson.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
She attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where she earned a B.A. in 1969, an M.A. in 1976, and a Ph.D. in 1983 (all in English).
Career[]
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 12 years.
In 2007 she retired from the University of Delaware[1] and moved to Traverse City, Michigan.
She teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency M.F.A. program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.[2] Her husband, Jerry Beasley, is also a retired English professor.
Recognition[]
Brown's first poetry collection, Fishing with Blood, won the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. Her collection Breathing In Breathing Out won the 2001 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Her collection Reunion won the 2007 Felix Pollak Prize.
She served as poet laureate of Delaware from 2001 to 2007.[3]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Fishing with Blood. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1988.
- The Eleusinian Mysteries MS (artwork by Norman Sasowsky), Newark, DE: Moment Press, 1992.
- Do Not Peel the Birches. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1993.
- The Earliest House (chapbook). Kutztown University, 1994.
- The Devil's Child (foreword by W.D. Snodgrass). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998.
- Breathing In Breathing Out. Talahasee, FL: Anhinga Press, 2002.
- The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004.
- Reunion. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.
- No Need of Sympathy: Poems. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2013.
Non-fiction[]
- Driving with Dvořák: Essays on memory and identity. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
Edited[]
- Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence (edited with Dennis Jackson). Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1988.
- On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers (co-edited with Billie Travalini). University of Delaware Press, 2008.
Fleda Brown Poetry Reading, part 5
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ "Department of English - Retired & Emeritus Faculty". University of Delaware. http://www.english.udel.edu/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=506&Itemid=798. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ↑ "Fleda Brown". The Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/fleda-brown. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ↑ "Fleda Brown : Poet Laureate, Professor of English". University of Delaware. http://www.english.udel.edu/fleda/laureate.html. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
- ↑ Search results = au:Fleda Brown, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 17, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Fleda Brown at the Poetry Foundation.
- Fleda Brown at PoemHunter (2 poems).
- Poems
- Audio / video
- About
- Fleda Brown page, University of Delaware.
- Fleda Brown Official website
- Fleda Brown at How a Poem Happens.
- "A poet attempts to define evil in The Devil's Child"
- Fleda's Blog
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